Chapter 199

Kane

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Nathan had asked for more time to gather the information, but my patience was wearing thin. My mood was already dark, and the weight of what Ruby had endured because of me only made it worse.

I hadn't known the full extent of her suffering until now. Knowing that those men had beaten her for helping me escape filled me with a heavy, suffocating guilt.

"Kane."

My father's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I looked up at him.

"Come with me," he said before turning and heading for the staircase.

I glanced at Ruby, who sat quietly with her head lowered, avoiding my gaze. My

eyes shifted to my mother, who looked visibly distressed.

stood and followed my father upstairs. He entered his bedroom, and

after him.

door," he said over his

he motioned for me to sit on the couch near

"Sit," he said firmly.

His demeanor was unusually serious, yet there was something

out a bottle of wine. Bringing it over to the couch, he sat down in the chair across from me

wine into both glasses, he slid one toward me

a drink with me. We'd never had that kind of relationship-one where we could sit and

it was one of his prized vintage bottles. My father had an extensive

my glass,

hadn't taken a sip, he broke the quiet. "You're

my hand stopped, and I lifted my gaze to meet his. "What

tone contemplative. "You've always had a natural

wine in my glass, letting his words sink in. Silent and

my life? How they had shaped the

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