41 The Red Secret
“I promise you, I only found out a few days ago,” I tell him, grabbing onto his arms.
He is on his knees before me, a man pleading for honesty.
“What?” he growls. His dark expression makes him look strangely attractive, but I don’t think this is the time for sharing these types of thoughts.
“I didn’t know I’d known him,” I swear, tightening my fingers around his arms like a clamp. He doesn’t move. Perhaps I am holding him up or perhaps he is too weak to move away.
“How could you not know?” Thom shakes his head hopelessly. If he’s ever been certain of anything, I think he’s finally lost his last ties to it. He seems to have no comprehension of the divide between certainty and uncertainty anymore.
“I don’t remember a lot of things from that time. I guess… I guess I b
