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‘I don’t have mine,’ she answered flippantly.
‘I’ll retrieve yours for you.’
‘Pin?’ she repeated.
His gaze narrowed. He took in the heightened flush to her cheeks. The tremble in her fingers holding his phone.
‘Fine.’ He rattled off a number.
He watched her open apps, enter codes for a long minute, before her fingers stilled.
She held out his phone. ‘Look familiar?’
His gaze flicked to the screen. It washim. ‘Of course.’
He rememberedthatafternoon. How could he forget? His father had died.
In the photo, his shoulders were too tight as he sat outside, because the smell indoors, he could no longer demand his lungs to inhale it. The smell he could never quite wash off. Cloying, it lingered in his hair—his clothes—inside the walls of his nostrils.Death.
‘And what about this one?’ Her thumb swiped against the screen. Another photo appeared of the same place, same time, with Isabella’s lips pressed against his.
He dragged his gaze to hers.
The accusation in her eyes…
He snatched air into his lungs.
Clarity.It bled into his consciousness. It flooded through him with razor-sharpness.
She wasn’t sad.
She wasn’t sick.
He’d believed she’d left him because of Isaak. He’d believed every time she looked at him, she saw what she’d lost. What he could not save. Their son.
The air left his lungs in a rush.
‘You think I was having sex withher?’
‘I don’t think anything,’ she said, her gaze locked on the screen between them. ‘I know.’
CHAPTER THREE
Konstantinos knew she’dgrown up in a house of lies. It was part of her rules. Their agreement. No one else. Only them.Loyalty.
It had been so for the entirety of their marriage.
Before and after, she’d run away.
Five long years of justher.
‘You know what, exactly,glikia mou?’ he asked. ‘You haven’t asked me anything.’
He’d protected her, kept the truth from her, because it was a truth she couldn’t handle. The death of his father. He hadn’t wanted to expose her to any more death. It had surrounded her for weeks. They’d only buried Isaak days before he’d found out his father was dying. And he’d done everything in his power to keep more death from her life.
Liar. You closed the door as she wept.
His gut gripped in a tight fist.
