As soon as the last word left his mouth, Liam raised a hand and clamped it around her throat. "Olivia, why did you lie to me?" "You really let Xavier drive Isla to her death?" "She was only eighteen. She had just started college. How could you... how could you do something like that?" With every word he spoke, his jaw trembled harder. His mind kept replaying every single image from that day's video. Isla, still injured, just barely awake from a coma. Xavier's inhuman assault all over again. Isla's eyes, still open in death. And Nora—nearly mad with grief, her face twisted with hatred... If all of that had been real, then how many cruel things had he done to Nora? Olivia's face turned red under his grip. Her eyes rolled back as she struggled for air, nearly suffocating. With all th

