Chapter Forty Two

Erin Lockheart's POV

I ate all the pastries he gave me without hesitation. I was really hungry after last night. He was laughing as he watched me marvel. "I forgot how big your appetite was."

"It's not." I cleared my throat. "I was just hungry."

"You always are."

"I'm not," I said as I continued to gobble the food down my throat. This reminds me of how we were kids. Although it was the original Erin Lockheart's memory, I can still feel it as if they were mine. It feels weird. I feel like an impostor.

Cadmus' gaze fell to the metal binding my arms and legs. "I'm sorry that it had to be like this, but I know the minute I took these off, you'd run back to Kai, and I refuse to lose you a second time."

"Kai isn't a bad person. He's not who you think he is."

"You love him; of course you'd say that." There was bitterness in his tone, and his face says it all. It was pointless reasoning with him. If I were him, I wouldn't believe me either. Kai's reputation precedes him. It's a fact that he k