[Vivienne]
I stare at him for a long minute—maybe longer—because whatever the hell just came out of his mouth didn’t make any sense.
My heart drops deep down into my stomach, and my eyes widen as if to make up for my absent verbal reaction.
For a second, I have no clue what’s happening. If I’m even breathing or not. If I’m even awake—or if I’ve somehow fallen asleep.
Caden was shot?
Why the fuck does that make no sense?
“You’re lying.” The fact that I just had a word with Alexander and he said nothing like this makes every inch of me want to deny Samuel’s claim. “Because I just talked—”
“I’M NOT LYING!” he screams in my face, as if he could scare me into believing.
But what actually happens is—I take a step back, realizing he’s probably not telling me the truth.
Something seems off about him, too.
I might be seeing this man after a very, very long time, but I still remember the chaos he’s capable of. The reasons he left his family. The reasons he never got along with Caden in the firs
