I yank my hand from her grip and stand alone, the patches of destroyed pores and skin stinging with my actions. “What are you doing right here?”

“I’m right here to take you house, away from this evil man. Certainly by now you understand who he actually is.”

“You’re proper. He did inform me.” I look round shortly. There’s nobody within reach.

“Then let’s go.” She reaches for my hand, however I step again from her, and her hand falls by means of the air. “What are you doing?”

“What are you doing? I’m not going wherever with you.” I scowl.

She blinks quickly, clearly stunned by my response. “After the whole lot I’ve accomplished for you your total life? I’ve solely ever tried to guard you.” Tears prick her darkish eyes.

She’s laying it on thick and doing a great job of it, I’ve to confess. If I hadn’t already seen what I did, I would even let her guilt me into leaving along with her.

As an alternative, I fist my palms at my sides. “I already advised you, I’m not going wherever with you.”

She frowns. “I believed it’d come to this. That is on your personal good, do not forget that.” She brandishes a knife from someplace in her uniform and holds it out in entrance of her.

In contrast to when Kol was holding a knife in entrance of me, the sight of this one fills me with terror.

I don’t even assume, I simply run. As quick as I can and to the very first thing I see, which is the opening to the hedge maze, probably the most terrifying place on earth to Kol. However at this second, it will likely be my refuge.

I must get away from this lady—as a result of from the papers in Kol’s workplace, I do know that the lady chasing me is just not my mom.

Chapter

Thirty-Three

KOL

THREE HOURS EARLIER…

Itake one other swig from the bottle and stare on the papers I faraway from the protected in my room on account of the cellphone name I simply obtained. The identical papers which have been plaguing me these days.

Perhaps I’d have been higher off to have left it alone somewhat than listening to my instincts after they stored telling me one thing was amiss.

It dawned on me that for Rapsody’s mother to vanish so shortly after she confronted her daughter about our engagement, she needed to have already been considerably ready to depart on the drop of a hat. Why? What common citizen has the assets and the flexibility to vary their identification except they thought they could must in some unspecified time in the future? You don’t get pretend IDs that may cross inspection at your native nook retailer.

That, coupled along with her mother’s story of getting no photos of her being pregnant and the primary eighteen months of Rapsody’s life, didn’t sit proper with me. How does a lady like Rapsody’s mom—one who’s so hyper centered on her daughter’s life and so controlling—not have photographs of her daughter as an toddler? Even when she was sexually assaulted, and it resulted in a being pregnant, how did she swing so removed from one excessive—not wanting any photos at all the little one and never connecting with the infant—to the opposite, changing into overbearing, heaping on the guilt to manage her daughter?

One thing felt off. I all the time trusted my instincts once I was within the army, and I wasn’t about to disregard them now.

So after Rapsody’s accident once I patched up her brow in my rest room, I took a few of her blood from the fabric and had it examined. My non-public investigator who positioned Rapsody and her mom within the first place adopted her mother round for just a few days till he might get a pattern to check towards Rapsody’s.

After which the outcomes got here again, proving that the lady I like is just not the organic daughter of the lady who raised her. And I’ve been battling what to do about that since.

However there’s no means I can hold the reality from Rapsody anymore. After final evening, it could be the ultimate nail within the proverbial coffin for us, however she deserves the reality. I used to be simply afraid that if I advised her, she’d take off in quest of her beginning mother and father, leaving me, which is a egocentric worry.

I deliver the bottle to my lips once more, taking a hefty swig. I wish to uninteresting the sides of my feelings proper now. Telling her is the appropriate factor, however the concept of shedding her is sort of a black festering pit in my chest.

She’ll depart me now. As a result of I discovered her beginning mother and father. And I do know Rapsody—she’s going to wish to know them and the siblings she didn’t know she had. And by confessing the reality final evening, I made it even simpler for her to stroll away from me.

My cellphone rings beside the papers I’m nonetheless observing, however I ignore it. I don’t wish to speak to anybody, except it’s Rapsody.

She’s made no effort to return speak to me at the moment. I swore to myself that I’d give her time to contemplate the whole lot I stated final evening with out pressuring her. She deserves that a lot a minimum of.

The cellphone stops ringing, however seconds later, it rings once more.

“What the fuck?” I grumble and decide it up with out trying to see who it’s. “What?” I bark into the cellphone.

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