Chapter 75

I don't hold back. I tell him –almost— everything that happened starting from when I found Carlina bleeding to death in the forest, to the new information we found out earlier today. I tell him how the man who had claimed to be my father for seventeen years of my life faked my childhood best friend's death in an attempt to start dehumanizing me as a child. I tell him how he wanted to make me stronger and how after all these years of believing she was dead, I found here in the forest—alive, but barely. And I tell him how she found out that Alex is now dead and she was able to come looking for Evan and I, only to be attacked by the Destroyers and being used as a way to send a message, as they put it. "Funny how I came home to keep the people I love safe from them, and somehow, they still managed to find a way to me." The laugh that escapes me feels too forced to me, so I let my tone turn serious quickly. "Bennett, I'm scared for my family," I say honestly. He doesn't say any