Caden’s face shattered. He looked at me like I had reached into his chest and physically ripped out his heart.
The silence in the storeroom was broken only by the sound of his ragged, uneven breathing.
"Rhea, you don't mean that," he said, his eyes searching mine for any hint of the girl he'd been with the other night. "You can't go back there. Your father won't just lock you away, he’ll punish you for being kidnapped. He’ll hand you to Eugene like a piece of meat to be slaughtered."
"And how is that any different from what you did?" I stepped closer to him, my voice cold and sharp as a shard of ice. "At least with Eugene, I know I'm being sold to an enemy so I know what to expect. But with you? You held me like I was the only thing in the world that mattered, and then you left me with
