“Evan,” I whispered. “Kye’s your brother?” His gaze cut to me, all signs of the tears gone. “Rex Blackwood is my dad. Or he was. Kye’s my half-brother. Should’ve been, anyway.” Evan slid the knife from his belt. “Now, he’s nothing to me. And he’s going to feel that pain. The same way I did. How it guts you when you lose everything you thought you had.”

