Ruthless Devotion

Vivienne’s POV

“You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

I nodded, but couldn’t bring myself to be satisfied with Valentin’s answer to my question. He sounded honest enough, yet my instincts whispered that he wasn’t giving me the whole truth. There was a carefulness in the way he spoke, as though his words were selected with precision, leaving spaces where something more shou