Delilah's POV
I opened my eyes to see him looking at me with an expression I couldn't quite read. Not anger, exactly. More like he was trying to carefully assess me.
"She's lying," Mom said, tears in her eyes now. "She's standing here lying about Dante and Mateo to cover up the fact that she didn't want to come. That she doesn't accept you as her step-father."
"I don't think she is," Ryker said slowly, still looking at me. "I know my sons, and I know when something doesn't add up. Delilah has never been anything but respectful and honest since she came to live with us. If she says something happened, then something happened."
Hope flickered in my chest, fragile and desperate.
"We need to figure out what actually occurred here," Ryker continued. He turned to one of the staff members ho
