#Chapter 197: Worth the wait

Fiona “Really? Okay. Fi and I will be right there.” Alex hung up the phone and smirked at me curiously. “What?” “That was Kayden. Jacob’s been down in the dungeon talking to Roland for the past few hours, and apparently… he says that he is ready to talk.” “Oh. Wow. My idea worked?” Alex shrugged, wide-eyed. “I guess we’ll see.” It had occurred to me, while thinking over our problem all afternoon, that Alexander and I were simply not going to be able to force this already broken man to tell us his deep, dark secrets. And I was certain that if I tried to invade his mind again, I would find he’d rebuilt his mental wall since our last interaction, and maybe built it back up even taller and stronger than before. Roland was a deeply troubled man. But he was also incredibly strong, in terms of his ability to keep his inner world a secret from those around him. At some point I wanted to try to explain this to my husband. Though he did not seem to want to talk about it,