He considers me in blistering, unblinking silence, slowly turning the cigar round and round between his thumb and forefinger. You’re not the kind of man who hides behind lies.” My heart pounds so hard, I’m surprised he can’t hear it. “Then I’d take you at your word and drive straight to the nearest police station. If he’s surprised by my question, it doesn’t show.
“It sounds worse when you say it out loud. And for the next five years, on every anniversary of what would’ve been your wedding day, you get drunk.”
When he’s gone, Kage says, “So your fiancé disappeared. Kage sends him away with a royally dismissive flick of his fingers, never taking his gaze off me. I recall my first impression of him when I saw him at the bar last night, how I told Sloane he looked like he walked off the set of Sons of Anarchy, and understand on a cellular level that the man sitting across from me is someone for whom the normal rules of society don’t apply.Īnd that he wants me but doesn’t want to.īecause people who stick a hand too close to a lion’s mouth will come away with a bloody stump where that hand used to be.
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