“Was it you they took them for?”
“They were for me. A reminder of how far he was willing to go if I didn’t keep pretending. And it wasn’t just Killian’s threat—I also had to keep the Gambinos from finding out what was happening. Even then, I never stopped searching for a way to free Reid from everything we’d done.”
“Oh my God,” I groan.
My head starts to ache.
“The kidnapping brought you and Reid even closer, and Killian realized you two weren’t going to drift apart. By then, he already had something planned.”
I close my eyes, remembering his words from that day when Killian talked to me after rescuing us and finding Reid beaten.
“The fame.”
“He thinks fame will be what finally breaks you two.”
“This is insane…”
“The attempted murder was something he planned the moment he realized
