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Lucas’s POV

Why was she asking about this?

Shouldn’t she know how Zade got involved with us?

Didn’t she know that she started all this? That it was all to get her across the border safely and secretly from Zade’s other enemies?

Was she playing me again? Acting like she doesn’t know anything just to show her false innocence?

“But you know what he did to my family already, don’t you?” I asked her coldly.

She cast her eyes down before she said tightly “The men I was with….they said… he killed your father, brother, and his wife. But I don’t know why he did any of that”

I scrutinized her face while she continued to keep her eyes down at the snow.

I couldn’t tell if she was being honest or not and it bothered me.

But still, I decided to play dumb and go along with her.

“At first, he wanted to strike a deal with my father. But when my father learned what kind of product he wants to ship through our borders, he told him to take another way that is far away from our town” I said firmly.

She lo