Chapter 24
“I wish I’d never told you,” April said.
Dean didn’t bother to reply, his focus the screwdriver on the floor, the tip beaded with Jay’s blood. April seldom said all she wanted with one sentence. He waited.
“Now, do you see what can happen when you’re living a lie? Even without this, Jay deserves a proper life. How can you hurt him like this? It’s all a game to you. Life. Everyone in it. You march all over them. The important one is Dean Chapman. The important thing what you want out of it. Why did you have to walk all over my brother? If you must play around with a man, why did you have to choose him?”
“Don’t you see,” he said softly. “It couldn’t have been anyone else.”
April frowned, shook her head. “You can’t care for him.”
Uncertain whether an order or proclamation, De
