Chapter 217

Declan

I turned around after a few minutes.

“Where did he take her?” I asked her.

My voice was flat now. Deadly calm. The kind of calm that came right before something irreversible.

She looked up at me, eyes wide and terrified. “I… I don’t know,” she whispered. “I swear. I don’t.”

I stepped closer.

Every instinct in me told me she was lying. Or worse—that she wasn’t, and the truth was somehow even