Chapter 184

I blinked, my eyes stinging as if something sharp had pierced them. I looked away from Kane, has words echoing in my mind, trying to piece together their meaning.

"Learned the truth? I wasn't the one?"

"Selene," Kane began, his voice softer than usual, but I cut him off with a sharp,

cold glare.

"What do you mean?" I demanded.

He didn't flinch, meeting my icy gaze with calm resolve.

"I reviewed all the footage from that night," he said evenly, "and I found out the truth."

I stared at him, unblinking, as though time had frozen. There was something

different about him today. He was unusually calm, his tone lacking its typical edge. It wasn't like him to act this way, not with me.

That chuckle grew into laughter, uncontrollable and sharp. I clutched my stomach, laughing like someone who had finally lost

wrong with you?" Kane asked, his tone laced with

my laughter cutting off abruptly, and shook my head. "Kane Thorne, you're incapable of trusting me,

at my accusation, but I didn't let

it out for you," I continued, "when I told you over and over again that I didn't drug you, you refused to believe me. But when I got so fed up with your baseless accusations that I admitted to something I didn't even do, just to

didn't even

me that your cousin

my face, my eyes darkening as the flood of emotions I'd

vanished in an instant.

business," I said coldly, the walls around me

deal with this anymore-his questions, his sudden interest in my past, his attempts to dig into wounds

his to touch.

I stepped onto the bridge, I froze. The view in front of me was breathtaking. The river flowed below, its emerald-green surface shimmering like something out of a dream. It was so clear, so pure, that I couldn't help but be drawn to

railing, letting the beauty of the scene momentarily distract me from

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