Helio’s POV
The look in her eyes when I’d promised at once warmed and gutted me. Trust. Maybe she hadn’t had a choice before. Maybe she didn’t even have a choice in trusting my word now, but there was nothing tentative in the trust I saw in her eyes. She was choosing to put her faith in me, and that should have made all the difference.
Except she was trusting me to send her away.
I growled pulling my stupid tie around my neck and fastening my cufflinks. My nerves were a mess. Not just because of Cindra but because of Kora. She was right. They were both right, and if I’d had even a little more sense in my head, I would have come to the same conclusions that Cindra had.
Kora had no reason to go through with this, mostly because she knew that I had every reason to go through with this. I
