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I clenched my jaw and didn’t speak I sat back slowly, arht of me, then he didn’t know me at all

I wasn’t spoiled Rich, yes—I greith luxury I couldn’t deny that

But spoiled?

Being spoiled suggests soave a damn about me Not my mother, and certainly notto notice what I was doing, and my father treated me like I was a cancer on the bottom of his foot

The others never noticed Darren was too busy learning to beco Penny, in particular, was naive enough to think ere all treated well

Only Liv saw the truth Liv saw a lot of things when she was alive I suspected for a long time that was part of why she jumped

She couldn’t live with the horrors lurking beneath the surface

“What’s your plan then?”

“I knohere Cosiht, especially nohile she’s distracted by Jami and Neil Once she turns her attention our e’ll keep on the offensive until she makes a mistake, and then—” He ran a thumb across his throat

“Real clever Except you assume she’ll screw up”

“You don’t think so?”

“She’s gotten this far That doesn’t suggest a woman prone to blunders”

“Then what do you suggest?”

“No, your plan is solid Let’s go on the offensive while her attention is elsewhere”

His eyebrows raised “Are you a contrarian for fun? Does it get you off?”

“No, sweetie, and I hope you never find out what gets me off”

His eyes lit up and sparkled “I suspect I will once you’re my wife”

My jaw closed and I tried not to letback—his lips, his taste, his hands—and I tried to push it away

“Kill Cosian to head back to the bedroom

“Where are you going?”

“I need to shower I want to be there when the first hit goes down”

“Absolutely not” He stood and followed

“You don’t get to order rabbed some clothes and drifted into the bathroom He came to the threshold, but didn’t enter as I turned on the water, nice and steamy hot