And a part of Liam wanted to point out how this was a bit of the pot calling the kettle black situation, here, given how Verity had been raised.

But that was also a can of worms he very much didn't want to open right now. "Yeah," he said. He knew what she meant, she didn't have to finish that sentence.

"He told you," he continued. "About the Kaluuet." Even saying the name hurt, and what had happened to them hadn't been Liam's doing. The problem was he remembered it as if it had.