When he asked, all I could hear were her words.
I love you, ‘Dido.
“I didn’t lie. She did attack me!”
Candido put the last little jar inside the box and put it in his pocket with a sigh. “Defending herself—”
“So you’re just going to believe her over me?” I asked. “I’ve been here all this time. She just—”
“Your heart skipped, Hedy,” he said, turning to look at me. “I heard it when you said it. I know you lied.”
“It didn’t.”
“It did,” he said. “And given that you were covered in leeches, I’m far more inclined to believe her even without that.”
“Just because I was in the lake?”
“How did you even get in the lake?” Candido asked and looked up at the sky.
“I don’t know, but why does it matter? I—”
“It matters,” he said.
“She must have sent me here somehow and—”
“Estella has been w
