LILITH

For the next few days, I recuperated at home with Dean perpetually by my side.

He took me to follow-up check-ups with Logan, cooked meals, even coaxed me into short walks.

Whenever I turned, he was there—except for the brief hours he disappeared to meet Callum at Raven Tower.

But those days weren’t completely uneventful. A lot happened in the middle.

To start with, the same night Brandon was detained, the Scotts—led by his father, Mr. Scott—reached out to me when they discovered I was the reason he’d ended up behind bars.

They wanted a compromise. They apparently couldn’t allow a member of their family to face attempted assault...