"Evelyn, let me explain." Kane followed me into the room, panic flashing in his eyes.
"She would have died when the heat poison took effect. I tried two cures. Neither worked."
He described the treatment in painstaking detail, as if enough clinical detail could somehow turn his betrayal into a medical procedure.
"I only meant to save her. Then she woke up, threw her arms around me, and cried. That was when I realized there was no undoing what had happened."
I studied his disheveled hair and bloodshot eyes.
Perhaps he truly did feel guilty. Perhaps he truly was afraid of losing me.
But he was still waiting for me to forgive him so he could forgive himself.
"I tried to distance myself afterward, but she was already pregnant. The child was mine. I couldn't abandon it."
He always had a
