Chapter 35

• Celeste
• She clears her throat, grateful when Delaney hands her the bottle of water from earlier. “I honestly don’t know. That’s the only secret I was keeping. Originally, I thought that Blaine was with Elizabeth Sanderson that night, but then I found out that she’d been admitted to the psychiatric ward, so she wouldn’t have been able to meet him. He made me promise not to tell anyone about the meetings with Elizabeth because he said Kane would be blamed for the way she was spiraling and that it would make the tension between Kane and Talon worse.”
• “I never touched her,” Kane says more quietly this time, his hand coming up to cup her jaw and tipping her face up to look at him. His expression is hard, but his eyes are searching her face. “That’s what you were hiding? You let me torment you because you thought I was going to be blamed?”