Her words… they couldn’t be hers. Not here. Not without Lucifer knowing. Even if she could outsmart him, it was still his world. He’d have a hand in it if he didn’t already. Regardless, each one was another stab through his Omega first and then his heart.
“No…” Shaun still croaked in response.
“You can’t say no,” she replied in his ear. “They’ve all seen it. They all know…”
“They?” he asked, failing the both of them then. All he needed to do was promise her that it wasn’t how he meant it, but his curiosity got the best of them both.
Mara stuttered for a half of a second, telling him all he needed to know about this conversation.
It wasn’t real.
“I wish you could hear me,” he said instead of pushing whatever version of herself further. “I blame myself for what happened to us… sin
