Chapter 29:
"We know why he said it," Kael says.
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed with my hands in my lap.
"Say it out loud," I tell him. "I need to hear somebody say it out loud."
"Dominic Sterling set the fire that killed your mama," Kael says. "And then he sat across a dinner table from you and told you to be stable and not break, because he needed you quiet and he needed you in that house and he needed you to not go looking at old files in old pantries."
My hands don't shake.
That's the strange thing. My hands have been shaking for two days and now they're perfectly still.
"He came to the house," I say. "After the wedding. He sat in the study with Marcus and they talked for an hour and then he came out and he looked at me and he said, 'You're the stable part. Don't break.'" I
