LAVENDER'S POINT OF VIEW
The moment I heard those words, my entire body went still. I stared at the door, unable to form a single word.
Wait… Did he mean...?
Did he mean that he didn't want to have anything to do with me because he thought I'd slept with someone else?
My heart sank.
Then another thought hit me so suddenly that my head began to ache.
Kai hadn't been the man from that night. He couldn't have been.
For months, I had been trying to convince myself that there was no way Kai could have been the man I remembered. I had been terrified of the possibility that the person I had spent that night with was actually him.
But now…
Now that he had just said that, everything suddenly made sense. It wasn't him. It had never been him.
I sat down heavily on the edge of the bed, my h
