ALDRIC
"Mother, stop," Ronan said sharply.
"Let me go!" she snapped, thrashing in his hold.
Her hands clawed at the air toward me. She twisted violently, trying to break free, her elbow driving back into Ronan's side. He grunted but held on.
"You lied to him!" she shouted at me. "You made him believe that?"
Across the room, I barely reacted.
"I simply told him what he needed to hear," he said calmly. "The truth."
"The truth?" Teagan let out a furious sound and shoved backward with all her strength. Ronan stumbled a step, and that was enough. She twisted out of his grip, slipping from his arms before he could catch her again.
"Teagan—"
Too late.
She closed the distance in seconds.
I could have stopped her. But I did not care too. Whatever was wrong with my guts, it made me apathetic mostly.
Her fist caught me square in the cheek and I went down.
