Chapter 61

“You’re still a terrible liar, Elena. Always have been.”

Those words rang inside Elena’s ears, bringing back memories from ten years ago that she had tried so hard to forget.

Her father was right. She was a terrible liar, always had been. She couldn’t lie to save her life. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to, it was just that she sucked at it.

And that was exactly the reason why she hated herself at this moment. Because she knew that he saw right through her. She knew that he knew that she was lying, that she wasn’t here because she wanted to see him.

She was there because she needed someone to tell her that Josh was nothing like what Derek had painted him to be.

She was there because she needed someone to tell her that her brother wasn’t some monster but a good man she grew up knowing him to be.

And who could be better than the man who sat in front of her, the man who spent his whole life worshipping the path her brother had carved for himself? Who better than her father to tell h