Home Entertainment Game Technology Six months after a bullet left me paralyzed, my fiancée secretly ordered the staff to stop my afternoon therapy because she believed helping me was pointless, but the exhausted aide earning twenty-five dollars an hour refused to treat me like a lost cause. I had spent my life surrounded by men terrified of my name, yet it took one brutally honest woman washing my back to make me realize the person wearing my engagement ring had already abandoned me.352

Her head snapped up.

“What?”

“Answer me.”

“No.”

Too fast.

I saw it.

She saw that I saw it.

“Arya.”

“I didn't know beforehand.”

The room disappeared.

Everything became one point.

“What did you know?”

She pressed both hands over her mouth.

“After.”

My pulse hammered.

“After what?”

“After you were in surgery.”

“Say it.”

“Dominic came to me.”

“Say it.”

“He said you were going to destroy everything.”

My fingers closed around the ring until the diamond cut my palm.

“What did he do?”

“I don't know exactly.”

“Arya.”

“He said the warehouse meeting wasn't supposed to end the way it did.”

The sound I heard came from somewhere far away.

My own breath.

“He had me shot.”

“I don't know.”

“You just told me.”

“I said I don't know!”

“And you stayed with him.”

“I stayed with you!”

“No.”

I looked at the guardianship petition.

“You stayed beside my bed while helping the man who put me in it.”