Chapter 66

“You can’t hide this from her forever, Simon,” Diana said, as she sat next to him in his car, leafing through some sort of kids magazine.

Simon was positively aware that the words uttered by the older woman were nothing but the truth. There were at least a dozen things he had kept from Elena. Not because he was ashamed of them, but because he was assured that once she learned about them, she would never even bat an eye at him.

And that, believe it or not, was downright unacceptable.

After getting so close to that woman—after touching her, feeling her, and breathing her in every way imaginable—there was no way he would put the bullet to his own feet. He would rather keep her away from all the fucked up mess that he was a part of than reveal to her and lose her forever.

Just the thought of disbelief in her eyes made his chest clench.

No. He wouldn’t make the mistake of being honest. Honesty was for the fools.

“I can,” he grunted, looking out the window and doing his best to keep h