Edeline Auric leaned down slightly, those impossibly blue eyes boring straight into my fractured gaze, pinning me in place. "There'll also be multiple accounts of the fact that you looked like you'd been crying when you came downstairs. Those substances found in his house definitely won't help his case. Several other proofs will come up, and I'll have Tyler confess to the crime. He'll be away for a LONG time, and when he gets out, he'll be on a s*x offender list and no one will want to hire him. His life will be destroyed because he met a girl named Edeline." My vision dimmed. I could hear the blood roaring in my ears, a deafening, rushing torrent. Tyler. Gentle, hardworking Tyler, who had sacrificed everything for a dream, reduced to a monster on a list, his entire existence turned

