Chapter 45: The Flame Between Us
The storm outside was nothing compared to the one between them.
Lena stood in the centre of Jay’s study, the folder now shut and forgotten, but the truths inside it still echoed through her chest like thunder. Jay leaned against the far wall, eyes shadowed, the candlelight barely reaching him.
“I don’t know what hurts more,” she murmured, “the fact that you kept it from me... or the fact that part of me still wants to trust you.”
Jay crossed the room in three slow steps. “Then trust the man standing in front of you, not the one the file describes.”
His voice was low, strained. There was no arrogance left in him—just bare emotion.
Lena’s lip trembled. “You’re not giving me anything solid, Jay. You say Ava betrayed Elijah. You say she’s back. You say I’
