SELENE’S POV
His voice wasn’t loud but it vibrated like a loaded gun pointed right between my legs. I climbed onto the bed and laid on my back.
He stood there watching me, jaw tight and chest heaving like he was trying not to lose control.
“You’re not Lucia,” he said, more to himself than to me.
Lucia… that must be who hurt him.
I nodded slowly. “I never was.”
“She lied to me,” he muttered, walking forward. “She f****d my enemy and smiled in my face like she loved me. She plotted with him to kill me.”
I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to interrupt the storm unraveling inside him.
“I put a bullet through her head,” he said, stopping at the edge of the bed. “I didn’t hesitate.”
He said it like he wanted to scare me off. But it only made me want him even more.
He reached out and
