~Ava's POV~"Is she out of her mind?” I was there, talking to myself. I had to figure out what to do about Lily.The call ended and I just sat there with the phone in my hand.The room was quiet. Dominic had walked to the far end with a book, but I felt the moment he looked up."Lily.” I just mentioned her name.He put the book down. Not to the side, fully down, the way he did when something needed his whole attention."She says she's scared of Damien," I said. "She says she needs help."He was quiet for a second. "Do you believe her?"There it was. The question I'd been avoiding since she called me and sounded like she was falling apart.I knew Lily, like I knew someone I'd grown up with. I knew how she could fake tears, how she used that fragile voice to get people to feel sorry for her. I'd seen her do it my whole life, at home, in meetings, even at her wedding in front of hundreds.But I'd heard something in that call that I hadn't heard before.Real fear sounds different. It does
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