Chapter 69 She

• The words hit me square in the chest, but I am looking directly at Abed, in his eyes I saw the walls forming again, he was retreating into his mind, so I smile at him, as if what his father had said had zero effect on me, and it was old news.
• “And?” I manage to ask, my voice controlled, pretending this wasn’t my life and I was playing a character, one that didn’t care that the man she was in love with used to be an assassin.
• His father chuckled, I drag my eyes to his face, his tongue was in his cheek as he stared at me, studying me once again.