Lucas drove me away from the apartment. The moment I got into the car, I sent Evelyn a message.
Kristin: Ethan belongs completely to you and Mrs. Mills now.
Then I leaned back against the seat, suddenly drained of all strength.
After a long silence, Lucas spoke quietly, "What I said to Ethan earlier wasn't a lie."
His fingers tightened around the steering wheel hard enough that his knuckles turned pale. Then, slowly, he began telling me the truth.
I finally learned that before Ethan's dramatic "knight in shining armor" moment, there had actually been another incident. Someone had harassed me at the Karaoke before. The person who stepped in and helped me that night was Lucas. But the lights had been too dark for me to see his face clearly.
And later, Ethan's entrance into my life had
