“It doesn’t matter,” I answered. “I’m dealing with it.”
“I don’t doubt that; but why would they target your mother? What did she do to them?”
My entire jaw tensed; it wasn’t about what she did to them, it was about what she is. It’s about what Lila is.
If I wasn’t careful, the same thing could happen to Lila.
I don’t think I could live with myself if anything like that happened to her.
“Enzo?” Lila spoke my name so effortlessly like she’s done it a thousand times before. I realized I was standing with my back toward her and not saying anything for a long while.
I turned to face her, meeting the concerned look in her oddly colored eyes.
“My mother did nothing to them. It’s a dangerous world, Lila. Things like this happen.”
She furrowed her brows together as she processed wha
