Chapter 23 Telling Her

• Kade POV
• Sitting here with my mother, I can tell she sees right through me. She hasn’t asked yet, hasn’t forced the conversation, but I know it’s coming. She always knows when something isn’t right, and this time, I won’t be able to lie my way out of it. Eventually, I’ll have to be honest with her because the last thing I want is to leave and have her stuck here, worrying about me with no real answers.
• The original plan had been simple. Next time I visited, I wanted to bring her and my sisters back with me for a while, let them see where I live, take them somewhere nice, somewhere safe. But now, with the way things have spiraled out of control, with how deep I’m tangled in things I should have never been involved in, that’s no longer an option. My life is too messy, too dangerous, and I won’t risk dragging them into it.