~ ZEV ~
"That day I left you," Zev said quietly as he smoothly accelerated the Jeep onto the highway, "Nick showed up. You have to understand, Nick never showed up when I was in the world. We'd talk on the phone and stuff, but he wasn't part of the fake family they gave me. They didn't want anyone making the connection with the program, and Nick's at the center of that. So when I walked into the house after school and he was in the living room… I knew."
"Knew what?"
"I knew that they knew we'd had sex. And they knew I was bonding to you."
Her head whipped around and her eyes widened. "But you just said—"
