POV: Leo

Three days of watching her lie to my face had been enough.

The punishment had been thorough and patient and by the end of it she had given me everything, every secret, every closed room, every decision she had made alone because alone was the only way she had known how to survive before me. She had said no more lies with her whole body shaking and her eyes holding mine and I had believed her, which was the only reason I had let her sleep in my arms afterward instead of making her earn that too.

But even as I held her in the dark, her breath...