“What are you babbling about?”

Georgia demanded furiously. Robert grabbed her hand.

“Don’t listen to her bullshit.”

Sierra, though, started cackling madly.

“Would I still lie to you about such a thing at a time like this? You can’t even imagine everything Robert’s been through in the past year. Why else would he have been so thankful, even believing me to the point of promising to marry me? I appeared at his side in the guise of a savior all along, and he couldn’t have been anything other than grateful.

“But all that acting and he still caught on. I wanted to ask you, Robert – before you planned to fake your death, where did I go wrong?”

Georgia tensed, fearful that Sierra was telling the truth. She looked nervously at Robert.

Robert smiled faintly at Sierra.

“Because you’re not Wesley’s biological mother. You made a misstep there, which led me to start suspecting you.”

“It was for that reason, huh.”

Sierra chuckled self-deprecatingly.

“I guess someone who’s not biologically related will never be able to act as loving as a real mother. No wonder you found something off. But so what? You can shut me up here, or even take me someplace to be tortured. You won’t be any better off, Robert Simpson. I don’t believe you’re unaware. Your body’s already been through all sorts of human experimentation. It’s run ragged. I don’t believe you can live long enough to be with Georgia for the rest of her life.”

that was both hateful and pitying as she looked at

as if sneering at Robert’s victory, and the time he didn’t have to

always trusted her instincts. At this moment, though, she was terrified of them, because she believed Sierra

all true, then

at all. Georgia looked

telling the

insane laughter as Robert took Georgia’s

it outside. Don’t bother with her. She’s gone

basement. A freezing wind there seemed to rustle at her and goosebumps rose on her skin. Georgia felt icy, and a sheer, consuming fear was spreading across

winter sun shone on her, but

wrapped his

just taking it out on you and trying to intimidate

shouldn’t keep it from me. The first time you faked your death, I can look over it, but if something like that happened again, and you kept it from me deliberately, I really wouldn’t be able to forgive you. I’m willing to face any problem with you, but I’m not going to be

looked at

gentle, tall and handsome

the events of the year over her head, her

things you’ve been through must have robbed you of all your dignity once. It might be too hard on you to have you list them all. I won’t force you to speak about them. I wanted to ask you something else. When you first had your incident, your leg wound hadn’t fully healed yet. The original plan was to go through a few more neural surgeries, then stand again slowly through physical therapy. That was a long plan that needed a whole year, but you disappeared after the first surgery. You kept on vanishing this year, and I don’t believe Sierra would have gotten anyone to help you with surgery, much

reddened. Sierra’s talk of human experimentation resonated through

was definitely no normal lab, but

labs that put human bodies through all sorts of psychopathic

biggest idiot right now. How

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