Page 133 of Liars

That pause? That hesitation? It was my answer.

I let out a breath that tasted like betrayal. “You can’t.”

“Kaylor, don’t let your anger make you blind.” His voice softened, pleading. “You’re not safe here. I don’t care what he told you. I know how this world works. You think they’ll protect you better than I can?”

Rusty snorted.

Kreed ignored him, his eyes locked on mine. “How do you think I found you?”

I frowned.

“It was Brock,” he said, lifting his phone. “He gave me your location.”

I stilled. “He wouldn’t,” I whispered, but my voice lacked conviction.

Kreed turned his phone screen to me. The message was right there. My cousin had betrayed me, too.

Or…had he been trying to save me?

Kreed took a step forward, his voice dipping low. “He trusted me enough to bring you home. He doesn’t want you caught in this war any more than I do.”

I swallowed against the rising pressure in my chest. “You sound like you care.” I forced a laugh. “Something I know firsthand you’re not capable of.”

His expression twisted. “Not until you.”

My breath caught. I swallowed the golf-ball-sized lump in my throat. For the first time since this nightmare started, I hesitated.

“Come with me,” he said, his voice thick with something I couldn’t name. “Give me a chance.” He extended his hand, his eyes begging me to take it.

I looked at his palm and then at the chaos surrounding us. Kreed’s crew, the Raven Crew, standing at the ready. Rusty and his men, poised to fight, offering me safety, security, and a home.

One step in either direction would seal my fate.

I had my father’s crew, my father’s best friend—the man who had truly been a godfather to me. And I had Kreed—the boy I had trusted, the boy who had ruined me.

The decision should’ve been easy.

But it wasn’t.

Because my heart and my head wanted two very different things, and I didn’t understand it myself. I didn’t know which one to trust.

I should hate Kreed.

I wanted to hate him.

But I had let him in. Trusted him.

I slept with the enemy.

Came damn close to falling in love with him.

And now?

Now my heart was bleeding.

And I wasn’t sure it would ever stop.

TO BE CONTINUED…