“You deserved better from him.” Naerin said with a touch of anger in his voice. “To take advantage of you like that for as long as he did is reprehensible.”

“Thanks, Naerin.” Siana looked up at the ceiling of the porch. “The worst part of it is that I know myself well enough to know that if he’d told me it was all a mistake, that I’d gotten it wrong, I loved him enough to believe him. I’m never going to put myself in that place again, I don’t think I could ...