Page 90 of Stone Seduction
Bastard. “Okay.”
Toxic man to be undone…
“I’ll get you some food soon.”
A rancid pong assaulted my nostrils. “And a shower, please. I stink.”
“You’re still in the same clothes.”
“I thought my crotch felt tight.”
He laughed. “You still look stunning.”
Creep. A thousand ants marched across my skin, landing a few bites along the way. “Can I at least sit up?”
“No.”
“Why?”
He approached the bed, backlit by the lamp. “I have something I need to tell you.”
Can you not loom like that?“Okay.”
He offered a sorrowful expression, which didn’t suit him.
“That night with Finn…” He sighed. “I’m sorry, Luke.”
Here he went with never getting to the damn point.
Until he did. “You took his gargoyle protection, leaving him exposed to the monster. The potion in your system has been suppressing this memory as a safety measure. But I can’t hide it from you anymore. I hate lying to you about this, regardless of how you feel about me.”
A ball of worms wrestled in my belly. I couldn’t muster a reply or even take in the revelation, a different heaviness pressing down on me beyond these binds, wrapped in slimy horror.
I took… I took… No. I’d never do that to my brother.
“Asher knew about this, too,” he added. “I asked him to keep it a secret.”
Asher knew?
“I’m so sorry, Luke.”
His voice faded away as I closed my eyes, sinking into a numb pocket away from here. No raging, no fighting these restraints on my power. Detached while also confused. Things didn’t line up yet made sense. Finn wouldn’t give up his protection willingly. We were in the middle of an argument, sure. But my brother wasn’t a fool.
What about me? What drove me to steal it? Was it an accident or a brief lapse in reason?
I would never hurt you.
“Why can’t I remember?” I bit out.
Where was the devastation to unchain my wrath?
I would never hurt you.
Hardly a simmer, trapped in numbing jelly.
I would never hurt you.
“The potion?—”
