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Chapter 180 - She Who Asked for the Truth (Part 2)

The anger drained out of her as fast as it had come, and left something raw behind. She sat down again. Her whole body felt like a bruise.

"Is there anything else?" she asked, knowing that there was something more.

She watched him decide.

"Aye," he said at last. "There are things Duncan and I are still piecin' together about him. I canna say them yet, because I'd only be guessin', and I willna hand ye a guess and call it the truth. When I know, ye'll know."

Riley studied his face, trying to see if he was hiding something from her. She had spent years learning to read when a man was lying to her. This was not that. This was something stranger, a man standing beside a closed door and telling her plainly that it was there.

"You're not lying," she said slowly.

"No."

"But you're not telling me everything."

"No. No' yet."

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