LILYS POV

It had been one week since Gideon had shown up. I still hadn't talked to him, still hadn't seen him. After pouring my soul out to Dimitri, I felt even more anger towards him. I'll be honest here, I felt better, so much better, having Dimitri know everything. More so, finally letting everything out. I guess he'd been right about that part; my past had been destroying me from the inside, like a disease. But now I didn't have to carry the burden by myself. And that was something nobody could put a price on. I was extremely lucky to have Dimitri.

We'd discussed it the morning after,...