LUCIAN

Everything that had happened from the moment I set foot in the Montgomery house took me by surprise, and it took a lot of willpower not to show that I was rattled.

I had expected Lyla to show some sort of emotion other than what she had displayed, but that wasn’t forthcoming. When she decided to follow me to La Derte, I knew that choice would come at a cost, so when she asked that I explain everything to her, I wasn’t caught off guard.

I had told her what she needed to know, or at least what I thought was necessary, but repeating what had happened to someone...