Chapter Sixty-eight
Talon Maverick
Today was the day—the day I never saw coming and never thought would arrive. Today was the day I planned to tell Thalina everything I had been keeping from her. I needed to tell her to finally feel at peace with myself.
After what happened last night—what we shared—I couldn’t shake the guilt of having lied to her. The sincerity in her eyes when she spoke those words to me shattered me into pieces. Hell, I couldn’t keep lying to her. I couldn’t even look into her eyes knowing that all I had done was deceive her. She didn’t even know the most important thing about me. She didn’t know who she was really with. She didn’t know my true identity.
If I wanted forever with her, like I said, it would have to be without lies. I wanted a forever filled with peace, love, and everything Seraphina could never give me—everything I thought I would never have again. Lina had changed me. She had changed my belief about love, and hell, she had turned me into a
