“What is it?” he asks me in a voice so menacing, fear lights a fire deep in the marrow of my bones. No. I shake my head. “Mason, no,” I say as my throat goes dry and my words crack. He didn’t do anything. He didn’t even know Jace.

This isn’t real. My fist grips the stool tighter and I struggle to react. This is a nightmare. It has to be.

I’m caught between my need to run to somewhere I can think and the need to know the truth. I need the truth. No more lies; no more secrets.

He promised.

He loves me.

There’s just no way.

“Did you do it?” The question leaves me in a single weak breath and in an instant, something snaps into place. As if he’s very aware of what I’m saying. As if he’s been waiting for this.

No. My body turns to ice; my blood and lungs freeze and I can’t believe this is reality. It can’t be true.

Mason takes a step forward, around the island and it breaks me from my denial.

It’s my cue to run, a natural instinct that takes over. The stool falls hard, crashing to the tiled floor as I take off, but Mason’s faster, gripping my waist and making me jerk backward. I cry out from fear and he releases me, only for me to fall onto the floor. His large frame towers over me, his hands up as if he’s approaching a wild animal. I feel as if I am just that. My eyes wide, my heart pounds in my chest. Thump, thump, thump.

“Did I do what?” he asks, his eyes narrowed and with a coldness I haven’t seen before. This isn’t the man I know.

My bottom lip wobbles, the small bit of strength vanishing as I take in the raw truth. “Did you kill my husband?”

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