Will sighed, looking like he would rather have the ground swallow him whole than be having this conversation. "What more do you want to know?"
"How on earth you ended up in charge of a smuggling ring, how rich you actually are, and how you really found me, for starters," Hazel said in a hard voice.
Some of these things had been bothering her for ages. She needed the whole truth. Carlos had given her enough information that she should know if he was lying about part of it.
Right now she was testing him. If he managed to tell her everything she wanted to know honestly, she would know he was sincere in wanting to fix things between them. That would be a sign of willingness to be a better person.
Will rubbed the back of his neck in agitation and didn't look at her. "…I burned down the hospital so I could escape. In my defense, it was the best thing my dumb eleven-year-old self could come up with at the time.
