SIXTY-EIGHT

AYSEL

I waited till we got back to the penthouse before I said anything about my parents. Throughout the car ride, he kept shooting me questioning looks as I'd gone completely silent after my declaration.

I went into another room in the penthouse when we got there. I didn't have anything in this room. In fact, I could count the number of times I'd had anything to do with a room in the penthouse that wasn't Valens'.

My eyes closed the minute I fell into bed but not because I was sleepy. I closed my eyes in a bid to block out a bit of what I was feeling which I knew wasn't possible. If I could close my eyes to my problems, if not seeing them meant they weren't there, I would have gorged out my eyes at this point.

'Tell him. Tell him now,' Artemis urged me.

There was very little Valens did not already know about me but what he didn't know about me was more significant than what he knew. My discovery earlier in the day exhausted me. It turned out that I hadn't known myself either.

I go