Chapter 73

“You could have killed me but you didn’t,” the woman blurted out.

Out of the corner of her eye, she watched Luke saunter close and give a slight shake of his head out of Hannah’s view.No intruders.Stupefaction made her dizzy, but she focused on the woman. Hannah was alone?

“You could have alerted them, but you didn’t,” she said slowly. “What do you want?”

“I wanted to tell you what I think you don’t know, even after all these years. The trap and the sabotage. The infiltration and the burning of your clan.”

Maya’s spine stiffened. “Yes. Because I was foolish enough to trust Sam.”

But the woman’s words were yet another shock to the system.

“No. They already knew before you got there. Someone else tipped them off—someone else in your clan who knew what kind of man your clan leader was. You were the backup plan.”

“Who? What kind of man?”

“Nelly. She was—”

“My cousin.” Her brain processes the information, and anger seeped in. “She would never have betrayed us. She would never have…”

Except