A Taste of Madness

“That's impossible,” Sloane said, her refusal cutting clean. “What we had is over. Trust isn't a crack you fill with words. I don't want to spend my life guessing which sentence is the truth and which is the lie. But every time I see your face, I relive the video of Kieran's pleading eyes. I keep telling myself you weren't obliged to save him, yet—”

Her voice trembled, and she fought the urge to c