C21 I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW, DID YOU?

LUCAS

“What did you say?”

I exclaimed a little more sharply than I meant to, but she didn't bat an eyelash; she just held my gaze steady, waiting, daring me, even, for me to open up.

I shook my head, more than her, I think. All these years I've been carrying this weight, this need to destroy Omar for everything he'd taken from me. And yet, here she was standing in front of me