Chapter 233

She cleared her throat and started again but resolutely kept her gaze away from him. "This one time, we snuck into his room and stole a bottle of whiskey. Only he caught us..."

"Whiskey, Kassandra?"

"We were just goofing around, Darian. We were seventeen."

"My father was an alcoholic who stole from his own parents, sold our house just so that he could drink, and drove my mother away. Rhode wasn’t supposed to even touch that stuff."

Shock flared in her gaze, widening those beautiful eyes. Only then did he realize how much he had betrayed. "I had no idea, Darian."

"What did he do, Kassandra?"

"Oh, he told us we could drink the whiskey—" color stole into her cheeks and she wouldn’t meet his eyes "—as long as we were also going to join him for a threesome after."

"Cristo! Of all the things to say to—"

As if expecting his reaction, Kassandra sighed. "We dropped the bottle where we stood and we ran, Darian. Kal was used to...he knew how to deal with us."

Unlike you, her unsaid accusation sc