Chapter 142

Damon

The city faded behind us, swallowed by the stretch of forest roads and the hum of the engine. I kept one hand on the wheel, the other wrapped around hers where it rested on her thigh. She hadn’t said much since we left the office, but I could feel the tension radiating off her. The soft way she leaned into my touch, the way her fingers twitched every few seconds like she wanted to ask me something but didn’t.

And I knew that no matter how hard she was trying to contain herself, the question still roamed around her mind.

I didn’t blame her.

I’d been quiet too.

Too damn quiet.

There was so much I should’ve told her. So much I should’ve said. But every time I looked at her… I found myself wanting to protect her from it. I found myself wanting to think that it was nothing more than a lie, that this was a game that everyone was playing on us. That what I heard was not true, That my father did not say what he did. Even when I knew keeping h