King Salvatore.
“The gold. The leather shoes.” Lilas says, her eyes are a mirror of tears and I step closer as I hear that. How could she have found out about that?
“Who told you that?” I ask.
“So you know about it?” She says, stepping back and looking at me in shock. Her eyes widen with revelation, pupils dilating like expanding universes. As I look at her, her face is drained of colour, and her eyes widen with a sudden terror against me. Why is she afraid of me all of a sudden? Lilas takes another step back when I try to inquire more about how she found that out and who told her. Her lips quiver and I’m perplexed.
“Lilas…who told you about it?” I ask, I stop trying to make contact with her.
“I slept with a monster.” She says, tears colouring her eyes as she looks at him.
“What the
