Page 28 of Cruelly Bitten
And maybe…
Maybe Cam woke up and heard all these logs addressed to him—the Liege—and thinks he’s the mastermind behind all of this madness.
My lips parted at the concept. Could Lilith have truly pulled that off? Made Cam into her puppet, even in death?
If Mira had been working for Lilith the entire time, then my location had been known from the beginning.
So why am I still alive?I wondered.Why not just kill me?
What’s the plan?
Am I even right?
A brainwashed real Cam certainly made more sense than a look-alike Cam. Just like Mira having betrayed us all made a lot more sense than a look-alike Mira. From what I knew, that sort of technology didn’t exist.
But a weapon that could destroy Cam’s mind absolutely did.
However, I didn’t understand why I’d been brought here. If anyone could fix Cam, it was me. So why risk us finding each other again?
Unless they were absolutely certain there was no way for me to bring him back.
Because maybe the change to his mind was permanent.
Or maybe I’m completely wrong.
I stared at the laptop again.Was this left here for me to find? To confuse me? To give me false hope? Or does this actually belong to Cam?MyCam?
It could all be a ruse. I’d been brought here for a reason.
And now I’d been left alone.
Why?
Where’s Cam?
Is he reallymyCam?
He’d killed me.
Then he’d nearly raped me.
That wasn’t the Cam I knew. But it did remind me of the Cam I’d first met—the predator who had tracked me like prey.
I’d only dissuaded him that night because I hadn’t been afraid of him.
He likely would have used me and killed me otherwise.
Just like he did after I got off the plane.
So did that confirm that he had no memory of me? Ofus? And instead he’d been listening to these logs from Lilith, learning her way of life and assuming he lived in the same vein?
That would explain his behavior toward me.
But I had to confirm it somehow, to determine if this was truly what had happened.
And to do that, I needed to question Cam. Not overtly or in a direct way, just subtly so I could better evaluate the situation.
Then I’d have to figure out how to proceed.
