They seem to be in the badpart of town, but that’s fine.
Kade likes the look of the grimy buildings, the trashed streets, condoms in the gutter.It’s thrilling.Vibrant.Gross.
‘You’re still watching me,’ he points out when they head towards taller buildings and brighter lights.
Lachlan ignores the observation.‘How are you feeling?’
‘Like shit.’Kade shoots Lachlan a resentful look.‘Any new information would be gratefully received unless you’re also “cursed” like Riley claims.’
‘What do you wanna know?’
It’s such an enormous question.Everything.Kade wants to know absolutely everything that he doesn’t already know.
For now, though, he asks, ‘Tell me the history of you and me.’
‘In a sentence?’
‘Just tell me things.Anything.Not about the little girl,’ he adds quickly, can’t process that yet and it stirs too much pain inside, right behind his navel.‘You and me.’
‘I don’t know where to start.’
Irritated, Kade rolls his eyes.‘My father, then, or Blaire.’
‘Why do you want to know about Blaire?’
‘She gave you the book, right?She’s Lee’s sister, apparently.’
Lachlan frowns.‘How do you know that?’
‘Lee told me.’
‘Jolene was here?’
‘Céliane.Lee.’
‘Sly little bitch,’ Lachlan mutters under his breath, but levels out soon enough.‘I never knew they were sisters until the end.Blaire was right, I was blind to so much.She betrayed me.’
‘Lee?’
‘Blaire.’
‘So you two were friends?’
‘We were very close.’
‘Were you involved?’
‘No.’
‘But you loved her?’
‘I did, but everything in the Estate was so complicated.’
‘Why?’
‘Because Alistair Penhalyx didn’t fire people, he killed them.Burned their bodies in the sub-levels and hid the remains away.I was afraid he’d do the same to her if he ever knew I cared about her.’
‘Did you know a lot of people he killed?’
