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I gasp, nearly jumping out of my skin when I exit the bathroom to find Isabella sitting on my bed, legs dangling off the side and a small smile on her face.
“You’ll give me a heart attack.” I swallow, wrapping the towel tighter around my body. “I’m trying to get changed.”
“It’s nothing I don’t have.”
I should have known getting a moment to myself would be too much to ask for, but still…I’d prefer Isabella than any of her brothers. “Did you need something?”
“I heard about what happened today.” She cocks her head to the side. “You have some balls lying to a guard like that.”
Is she blaming me? I swallow. I deserve it. “I didn’t know what Damian would do.”
“My oldest brother is ruthless. I’ve made that mistake before, but someone died because of me. You don’t want to be the reason that people die.”
“But…”
“This is your life now, Annalise.”
Her words hit me hard, and I swallow before nodding my head. She’s right.
“Isabella, do you know why Damian was at Mikayla’s grave?” I ask, my voice steady despite the knot forming in my stomach. Isabella hesitates, her eyes flickering with uncertainty.
“You shouldn’t ask me questions like that.”
“You’re the only one who will tell me the truth.”
For a few minutes, Isabella doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t even look at me. Then, she lets out a breath and stands up. “I wasn’t supposed to say anything.” She rubs her hands together anxiously. “My brothers…they don’t want to tell you.”
“Tell me what?”
Isabella lets out a deep breath. “Damian knew Mikayla.”
I frown. “Knew her?”
“Intimately.”
I feel like the world is crashing down around me. Damian and my sister were involved together? But how…? Memories of the last time I saw Mikayla rush into my head…specifically the black eye.
My heart pounds harder, and I fall onto the bed. “He hit her.” My vision begins to blur from shock. “He killed her.”
Damian truly is a monster. He’s going to kill me next.
“No!” Isabella says quickly, shaking her head. “He would never!”
“You’re a liar!” I scream, jumping away from her when she reaches out to touch me. “He’s a killer. He would have killed that guard.”
“Annalise, this life…”
“I don’t want anything to do with this life!”
“Annalise.” Isabella is pleading now. “He loved Mikayla.”
I scoff in utter disbelief. “He loved her…? You can’t be serious? If that’s his version of love, then I feel sorry for any women who were subjected to that. I mean, my sister can’t have been the first, right? How many women and children has he killed?”
“None.”
I shake my head, gripping my towel closer to me. “You know, I actually liked you, but if you can accept a woman beater, a killer, as a brother…then you and I have nothing to talk about.”
Isabella’s face turns from grim to annoyed. “You don’t get to talk like that about me or my brothers. You don’t know what we’ve been through.”
