Something ticks off in Shawn and even Neriah feels it, too. “He’s the reason I now know the truth, isn’t he?”
Neriah has always known him to be smart enough to put two and two together and that’s what he just did and if he would just be smart enough and run for the hills now, it would be so great.
She nods, “Yeah if he didn’t find out and confront me about it, I don’t think I would have ever been able to tell you.” There was no other way to make the truth any less hurtful and even she knew it.
“And I thought you loved me.”
“I do—” she tries taking his hand, but he moves it away.
“No, you don’t. If you did, you would have trusted me to decide and now you told me the truth not because you want to but because Cainan made you.”
“I’m sorry.” She doesn’t know what else to say. She admits she messed up, but she was afraid of hurting him and in the end, that’s what she has done.