Chapter 265

“Because?”

“I cannot say.”

“Can’t or won’t?”

Valeria shrugged. “What do you want with my sister?”

Trees got the distinct impression Valeria would smell bullshit. “She owes me answers.”

“Do you deny that you want her in your bed again?”

So Laila had told her sister they’d had sex? “No.”

The little boy in the playpen grunted and rolled over. The single mother glanced her son’s way, watching until he settled again. It was the only hint Trees had that Valeria had feelings at all.

Finally, she faced him. “I overheard Zyron and Kane talking. Your friend seems to think my sister broke your heart.”

Fuck.

But her obvious bullshit meter, along with her arched brow, warned him not to be dishonest. “She did.”

“Do you still have feelings for her?”

Jesus, she wanted him to open his chest so she could inspect all the cuts her sister left? “Would I be here if I didn’t give a shit?”

Valeria shrugged. “Revenge is a powerful