51. Secret

Caterina

Kai walks me back to the edge of the woods and we put on the clothes left before the ritual.

“I’ve found out a lot of things while visiting the realm of the dead, including who the real traitor is,” Kai says while he slips on his jeans. I frown as I get into my sundress and heels.

"Real traitor? I thought the twins were behind everything?” Kai shakes his head and buckles his belt.

“No, they played a minor role in this. The real culprit has been hiding in plain sight, feeding our secrets to Andretti.” He says, then slips his hand into mine. “I’ll let my brothers know to meet us back home.”

We walk the rest of the way to the car in silence, odd since we literally just had a life or death experience together. Everything feels a bit anticlimactic - we just went through Hell and now we’re waltzing hand in hand back to the penthouse like nothing happened.

Like Kai didn’t have his heart ripped out by an old god.