Chapter 65: Trapped In LiesETHAN’S POVThe air in my apartment hung heavy with the stench of regret and stale coffee, the dim light from a flickering bulb casting shadows across the cluttered living room. I slumped on the couch, my casted arm heavy against my chest, my eyes dull, haunted by ghosts I couldn’t outrun. Reynolds’ face flashed in my mind—his steady gaze, his laugh, the blood pooling on the dashboard as the truck crushed his side of the car. Jenna, Torres, Malik, and Dorin, all dead, their screams echoing in my skull. And Lucian, his dark eyes burning with love and rage, his lips on mine before I slapped him, pushed him away, and told him he was nothing. Five months since I’d abandoned him, left him bleeding in a hospital after he took the fall for me, and still, he’d saved me—paid my bills, killed for me, loved me when I didn’t deserve it. My heart ached, a wound that wouldn’t close, my fingers trembling as I clutched a glass of water, the liquid sloshing against the sid
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