When They Beg I Rise (Lemira) novel Chapter 939

Hearing his voice, a look of profound mockery flashed in Lemira's eyes.

When she spoke, her tone was dripping with sarcastic venom, rough and broken.

"Was it fun, stringing me along for so long?"

Orion lowered his eyes, entirely unable to meet her gaze. His Adam's apple bobbed. "I never wanted to lie to you."

"But you did it anyway, didn't you?"

Lemira forced her chin up, her stare turning ice-cold. "You were in the Sinclairs' car that night. True or false?"

"True."

"Why didn't you tell me from the very beginning?"

She felt like an absolute idiot. When she had first started digging into the crash, Orion was the *only* person she confided in. He was the only one who knew every detail of her investigation.

And he had kept his mouth shut the entire time.

Orion's jaw tightened. "Because I was a coward. I felt too guilty to tell you the truth."

*Guilty?*

Lemira let out a hollow laugh. So, her instincts were right.

Having confirmed her worst fears, she locked eyes with him. "One last question. Did the Everhart family have a hand in the crash?"

"Yes. But my mother was completely unaware."

At those words, Lemira squeezed her eyes shut. Her chest heaved erratically, the only outward sign of the catastrophic heartbreak tearing her apart from the inside.

After what felt like an eternity, she spoke again. "So... you taking that job as the university doctor. That was because of me?"

"Yes."

"You approached me to figure out how much I knew about the accident?"

Orion pressed his lips into a thin line. "I wanted to see how you were doing. I wanted to make amends."

The irony was suffocating. *Make amends.*

So every ounce of kindness, every protective gesture he had ever shown her, was rooted entirely in pity and guilt.

Did he ever even love her at all?

Lemira turned her face away, staring blankly at the far wall. "I've asked what I needed to ask. Get the hell out of here."

Orion stared at her, his eyes filled with desperate yearning. "Once the dust settles with the Sinclair family, we'll sit down and talk."

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