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I nodded.
He swore under his breath. “Shit. You knew?”
“I found out a couple of months ago, when I was digging
into Lila’s accident. It always bothered me, and I wanted to
know, wanted to bring her justice. I found out it was
Christian,” I explained.
“Before you two started dating?” he questioned.
“Way before,” I confessed quietly.
Colton swore again. “Lila found out? Oh shit, the gala!
Christian!” Colton finally put two and two together.
My chest tightened with a vice grip. “He was there. Lila
came face to face with the person who killed her parents,
Colton. Do you realize what this means? I did everything to
protect her from the truth,” I croaked, my voice barely
audible.
“Shit, Maddox. I don’t know what to say.”
“Lila hates me.” Saying the word out loud caused me to
almost double over in pain. I hadn’t expected it to hurt this
much, but it did. Everything fucking hurt.
“She doesn’t.”
“You weren’t there. You didn’t see the look in her eyes.”
The look of pain and disgust. Betrayal and broken trust.
“I should have fought harder, should have stopped her
from going to the gala, but she was so goddamn stubborn. I
thought I’d be by her side all night, keeping her safe, and
away from Christian. I thought we’d be able to leave before
anything… I thought…”
I rubbed a hand over my face, so exhausted, so
mentally… done. I just wanted to wrap myself around Lila
and forget about this chapter. I wanted to turn the pages
over and begin anew. “I thought a lot of things, but I still
messed up.”
And the worst part of it? Lila didn’t even know half of it.
All my secrets…
If she knew the rest of it…
No. The mere thought of it made me sick.