I nod.
“I’m sorry. If he could love anyone, it would be you. You need to finish the game and then leave and forget you ever met any of us.”
Leave and forget about the most important man in my life.
Zeke’s asking me to leave, rip out my own heart, and tear it to shreds. Then pretend I didn’t just destroy the only meaningful thing that has ever happened to me.
“What if I can’t stop loving him?”
“Then you will live the rest of your life in horrible pain. Worse than anything you’ve ever experienced before. Trust me—find a way to get your heart back before it’s too late.”
Someone broke Zeke’s heart. And he doesn’t want to see me get hurt the same way he’s constantly hurting. The same way Liesel hurts.
I sigh.
Get my heart back; it should be easy. But I already know it’s too late. My heart belongs to Enzo. I stare at my finger where his mother’s ring used to sit with the inscription—My heart belongs to the devil. The inscription became truth. Was that always going to be my fate from the moment I wore the ring?
I don’t know Enzo’s mother’s entire story, but I do know it didn’t end well. The woman fell in love with the devil. The only problem is the devil has no heart to love back with.
10
ENZO
“NO! DON’T TAKE HER!” I yell.
“Kai doesn’t belong to you, Enzo. She never did. She doesn’t want you. She doesn’t like you. She could never love you,” Milo says.
I look at Kai smiling in Milo’s arms. She leans over and kisses him on the cheek.
I pull out my gun and aim it at them. “Let her go.”
“Does she look like a woman that needs to be rescued? She’s happy here, with me,” Milo says.
“I’ll believe it when Kai tells me to leave. That’s she’s happy here with you.”
Milo cocks his head and runs a finger down Kai’s neck—my neck. She’s mine, not his.
“Beautiful, would you like to tell Enzo how happy you are here with me?” Milo asks.
Kai kisses him softly on the cheek. “Gladly, hubby.”
Hubby? They’re married?
She looks at me. “I’m happy with Milo. He’s the love of my life. He’s strong, handsome, and he isn’t a monster.”
I’m not a monster.
I don’t lower the gun, I can’t. I don’t believe her, or maybe I don’t want to believe she could be happy here with him.
Kai is mine.
No, she isn’t. She only stayed because you forced her to. You were supposed to set her free. That’s how the saying goes. Something like, if you love someone set them free, and if they return they are yours forever.
I could never risk it. I wasn’t strong enough to set her free. Because I knew she’d never return to me.
“You’re lying. You’ll say whatever Milo tells you so he won’t kill you,” I say.
“Who has the gun pointed at her? It’s not me, it’s you she fears,” Milo says.