Chapter 79. You Know Me Now

Ezra POV

Silence falls.

The way she looks at me breaks something in me. I see her anger on my behalf, her understanding but at the same time…she looks at me like I’m a stranger.

“I get it.” She sniffles, wiping her tears. “He deserved it. B-but…you kept this for years, you tailed my family, you used us…”

“I had to do what I could at the time.”

“Exactly. You told me once that I don’t know you…and you’re right.” She swallows. “I-I don’t know the man I’m in love with. I don’t know your thought process, I don’t know you, Ezra…and that sucks.”

My throat tightens. “You know me now.”

“Did…it’s crazy I have to ask this again, but after this revelation… Did you kill Tristan?”

I stiffen. “What?”

“Can you blame me for asking?” She wails. “You killed my dad for abusing your mom, you beat up Tristan for laying his hands on me, but…did you kill him?”

“You know the answer to that question, Wren. I have never lied to you.