............. Kayden ............. “Here,” Felim says, handing me some water, and I take it. “What are you going to do?” he asks, and tears come out of my eyes again. I don’t know what I’m going to do. He’s right, I messed up, but I panicked. I love Kiara, and she was leaving me. Now I’ve made things worse. There’s no way she’ll ever listen to me now. “You have to let her go. You don't need this. If she presses charges, we will handle that,” Aleksandr says as an image of her distraught face flashes in front of my eyes. Why did she do this? Why did she run? Why didn’t she give me a chance to explain? I’m not Aiden. I didn’t kill her father. I would have never hurt her. I love her. “Kay? Are you listening to us? You can’t lock her up forever. Her family is going to start asking questions

