Ruby POV:
I exhaled through my mouth slowly. In and out, I breathed, but my hands wouldn't stop shaking, and the tears wouldn't stop flowing. I clenched my fists and then my jaw as I held my head up. "Lovette is my mother, huh?" I pinched the bridge of my nose while nodding. "Okay," I swallowed and looked back at Malcolm. "How? I want to know everything from the start."
Malcolm rubbed at his eye uncomfortably.
I didn't care how this made him feel. "I need to know, and you said you'd tell me everything. I want to know about her-"
"I didn't know her as Lovette," he replied, suddenly cutting me off. "When I met her, she went by a different name. When she vanished, I searched everywhere for her, but it was pointless because the woman I knew didn't exist." He chuckled, but there was no humo
