RAINA Alexander had to have gone mad. Completely unhinged, and he seemed barely able to recognize it. His anger, though, wasn’t what had thrown me off balance—it was the regret flashing in his eyes. Regret, as if he had the right to feel any of it after all this time. I had no use for his regret now. If anything, I wanted him to regret nothing, to see his mistakes clearly so that his guilt wouldn’t interfere with what needed to be done. I’d made a grave error myself, though. Why, why, did I have to let it slip? Dominic was my brother, not some stranger or lover for Alexander to fight over, but that fact had been meant to stay buried until I’d gotten Liam out of his life entirely. There’d been no other way to ensure he wouldn’t pull something at the last minute, some sudden moral epiph

