Chapter 64. New Paths

Kade’s POV

The house was loud when I walked back in after meeting Layla in the woods. I missed the quiet of the forest, and I missed her. The first thing I did was go up to my room and take a shower to make sure that nobody would smell her on me, but first, I lay in bed with my clothes on.

After the shower, I went straight to my mother. After what Layla had told me, I knew that there was something my mother wasn’t telling me. Thinking back, I could remember instances where her words had been cryptic, and she would always say that whatever she did, she did to protect us kids, but that wouldn’t work this time. I needed the truth, all of it, everything that she had been hiding since I was a child.

“Mom?” I walked into my father’s office on the first floor, and there she was, sitting behind the desk.

She looked up from the papers, and I saw the look in her eyes change the second that she saw mine. “Kade.”

“Don’t. No lies, no cryptic messages,” I sai