“Infidelity – it's not what you think."
Charli
"I can't."
Nox's deep voice echoed from the walls of my newly decorated office. Their vibrations amplified within my soul, the meaning lost as I searched his icy blue stare.
I can't.
Indecision and uncertainty rushed through me.
Who was this man?
Did I even know?
Nothing mattered but the one recurring question that, while answered, remained unexplained.
Please, Nox, tell me that you're not responsible for her death.
My heartbeat quickened as I stepped back from the man who had been my lover, from the man whom I'd trusted. Mute and deaf. The words I can't were the only ones I heard over the deafening silence. Yet there was more. The world unrelentingly spun, tilting on its axis as life continued beyond my fog.
Nox's large han
