Cayden POV
I stared at her, almost unable to believe that she had even asked that question.
“What?" I asked her, sure that I had misheard her.
“Did you kill your ex-girlfriend?" Rose said again, as sure as she had asked the first time.
And I blinked. There was no mistaking it this time, there was no way that I hadn't heard her properly. And yet, there she was, asking me something that she shouldn't even know about.
But it wasn't just that.
It was the implication, too.
I got up to leave. How could she think so little of me, after all this time? How could this be what she thought I was capable of?
I was ready to just leave the restaurant. They would put everything on my tab, so she wouldn't be left in the lurch with anything.
But I took another look at Rose's face and I knew that I
