Serena refused to look at him. She couldn't. Not only did he betray her trust, he asked people not to tell her.
"I'm sorry, Serena. The last thing I wanted to do was hurt you."
And he wasn't alone in this. Dex lied to her face in the war room. Gavriel and Hale lied too, and she'd trusted both of them without question. The only person who'd been honest about his dishonesty was Garrett, which was a low bar and he'd barely cleared it.
"I just thought..." The rest of the sentence died in her throat. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
The tears frustrated her as much as the situation. They made her look weak in a conversation where she needed to be iron, and her body was betraying her the way everyone else had.
She needed to tap out of this. She didn't have it in her. And she especially didn't want to keep crying in front of him.
