Chapter 20: The Confession
Isolde could not sleep after Damien said those words. I love you. They should have made her happy. Instead they made everything feel heavier. She slipped out of bed and went to the living room. The collar hummed softly like it was trying to comfort her. Or warn her. She was not sure anymore.
Damien found her there an hour later. He stood in the doorway watching her. "You are still thinking about it."
"Yes." She turned to face him. "You said you love me. How am I supposed to believe that when everything else feels like a lie?"
He walked over and sat beside her. "Because it is the truth. I did not plan to fall for you. I wanted control. Revenge. Then you ran into my car and everything changed."
She looked at him. "You killed someone. You paid my mother to
