Chapter 143
They must have just walked in from their game, putatly laughing and talking about their comes mity to walk inno this emotional explosion
They had clearly heard enough of the comeration to understand what Elena had been about to reveal
The look on their faces was a misture of stock, anger, and something that looked very much like bane
Stefan’s face had gone completely white, all the color draining from his cheeks like someme had pulled a ping His hands were gripping his golf chub so tighty that his kuuddles had turned white ton.
Ethan looked like someone had walked up and slapped him across the face as hard as they could. His mouth wes hanging open and he kept blinking like he was trying to make up from a bad dream.
His golf shirt was still tucked in neatly, his hair still peren from their day out, but his eyes looked lost and confused
And James, James was staring at Eleta vid an expression of cold disgust da made her blood rum cold.
There was something different about his face cour, something she had never seen befreines like vatting a mask slip off and seeing what was really demea
What did you just say?” Stefan asked quiety, his voice deadly calm. In was the kind of calm that ca burricane, when the gut still and heavy and dangerms.
When you knear something temble was about hayen bu you couldn’t do anything to stop it
Elena realized with gangbaria sie had just revealed the one semer hey had all agreed to keep buried
forerez
In her anger and desperation, in herneed to bom someone the way she was hurring, she had exposed the truth that could destroy everything
She had just cold Sammel’s no diferanderer. The same co people who had been there for her whenever she was down, who bad welcomed her into their home, who had treated her like family
She had bun them because she was stupid and angry and couldn’t control ber mouth.
And Mose. Oh God, what had she done to Mose?
The tears started flowing down her face before she could stop them. She couldn’t help it. The guilt was crushing her like a weight on her chest.
She looked at James again, watching the way he was putting pieces together in his mind. His eyes were moving back and forth like he was reading something invisible in the air.
His expression kept changing from confusion to understanding to something much darker and more dangerous
She had just told him that he used to be a killer. That he had blood on his hands. That he had taken someone’s
life
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That the accident that stole his memories had been caused by something terrible he had done on someone else’s orders.
And judging by the look on his face, James was not a man who would forgive her for giving him that knowledge.
There was something cold and calculating in his eyes now, something that reminded everyone in the room that underneath his friendly exterior and charming smile, he was still the same man who had once been capable of taking a life without hesitation.
Elena shifted her gaze toward Mia, who was staring at her with a look of betrayal so deep it made Elena’s chest ache. Her best friend’s eyes were wide and wounded, like a deer that had been shot and didn’t understand why.
“Is what she said true?” Mia whispered, turning toward Stefan.
Her voice was broken, barely audible. There was a look of hurt on her face that made everyone in the room want to look away.
Even Ethan and James, who were dealing with their own shock and pain, couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. Ethan stood there in complete shock, still trying to process everything he had heard. They had been standing at the door for maybe two minutes, but it had been enough to understand the situation perfectly.
His father had ordered someone to be killed. His father was a murderer.
But what was really eating at him, what was making him feel sick to his stomach, was Elena’s betrayal. He had never expected this from her. Never in a million years.
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