For a moment, I thought I didn’t hear him right.
Because that can’t be right.
It can’t be.
I have accepted betrayal from just about everyone, and I’ve learned to expect it from everywhere. From my cousins, my own twin brother, but Raz? It didn’t feel real. It just didn’t seem possible.
In all honesty, I expect Cai to betray me before Raz.
Raz has been a part of my life, a very big part of my life. He has been there for me just as much as my own family. Raz is my childhood friend. Raz is my Captain. Raz… I slept with him. I spent many nights with him. He knows me possibly more than my brother does. I was going to choose him— to marry him.
I stopped looking for a mate for him.
But, no. He was looking and talking to Cai. Not me.
Raz was telling Cai to kill me.
And I cannot fathom
