Amara's POV
Ethan showed up in my apartment instead of calling first, which told me before he said a word that whatever he had to tell me was very important.
"Fabian's asleep?" he asked, still in the doorway.
"An hour ago. What happened?"
"I talked to Lila. Confronted her, actually, with the evidence." He came in, sat down heavily on the couch like the day had finally caught up with him. "She confessed, all of it."
"I assumed as much, given the service account." I sat across from him, bracing myself. "Tell me."
"She said she did it to give her mother something to focus on that wasn't you, specifically." He rubbed his face.
"Katherine's had a private investigator digging into your background for weeks, your scholarship, your foster records. Lila thought if she handed Katherine a prof
