When she hung up the phone, she felt no more reassured, in fact she felt sick down in the pit of her stomach. She’d sworn to do whatever it took to keep Ryder safe, to get him back alive, and now she had to make the ultimate sacrifice. To save his life, she had to be unfaithful.
Elijah had called her from work to make dinner plans and she had dressed herself up as she always did. Descending the stairs to meet him the foyer, she took one look at him and knew she had to bite the bullet, to do it now, or she would lose her nerve.
“You look sensational, as always,” he said, coming to the bottom of the stairs to meet her.
“Thank you,” Lacie said. “Can we sit down for a minute?”
“Of course we can,” he said, guiding her from the bottom stairs around to the chaise lounge that sat beside the st
