"The woman who kidnapped me," I say finally. "My rapist's sister."
Something in him goes completely stil like a switch flipped.
"And you believed her?" he asks quietly.
"She had details," I shoot back. "Things that actually made sense."
"Or things that were meant to sound like they make sense," he counters immediately.
I falter slightly.
He notices.
"She wanted to break you," he continues, his voice still controlled but more intense now. "You said it yourself….she's connected to the man I killed. You think she wouldn't twist things to turn you against me?"
My chest tightens again because that does make sense but so did what she said and that's the problem.
"I don't know," I say again, more frustrated now. "I don't know what's real anymore.
Zane's expression shifts again…,not angry this time.
"Then look at me," he says.
I hesitate but I do.
"Do you really think I'd go that far?" he asks. "After everything?"
