My Sentence for Her Crime
From behind us came Lilian's broken, desperate cry, "Sonny! What if I cut ties with Nathan? What if I call a truce with Sierra? Would you forgive me then?"
In the dim hallway, I didn't even break stride.
"Lilian," I said without looking back, "my feelings for you are gone. And it has nothing to do with anyone else but you."
And I led Sierra out of the shadows, into the light at the end of the corridor.
…
After that night, Lilian disappeared from my life. The calls and ambushes stopped.
Instead, she confessed. Publicly. She laid out the entire story—how I took the fall for her crime, how Nathan conspired with her to frame me for the stolen watch.