Chapter 109

Devlin prepared himself to begin to speak. Right before Faith's eyes, she saw him transform. A shadow fell across his face, grief entered into his eyes and his shoulders hung down as though being crushed by a heavy weight.

Immediately, Faith remembered that she'd seen this before...this man...this version of Devlin. He look older, greyer, more frail. This was a man wrecked with grief and with a start, she realized that this man had always been there under the shadows, lurking and waiting.

For every smile and every happy moment she'd had with Devlin, this grief-stricken man was watching, crying beneath the mask.

Even without hearing what he had to say yet, Faith's eyes began to water. She fought the urge to pull him into her arms and hug him, to tell him that he was not alone. She fought the urge and she waited.

Devlin started speaking. "What I'm about to tell you, I've only ever told three people. I told Casiuss all those years ago when we met. I told Sheila when I was trying to convi