CIAN
"What are you going on about?"
The words were barely out of my mouth before I heard myself and stopped caring. I held up a hand.
"You know what, I really don't give a shit."
She looked at me like she wanted to argue with that too. Like she had a right to.
"I know you think I'm the worst right now." Her voice had that quality again, the soft careful one. But it wasn't landing the same way it used to. "But I did want to fight back. I promise you."
I said nothing.
"The only reason Aldric was so cocky," she continued, steadying herself, "is because of the dead man's switch. He knew I could hurt him at any time. Hell, he knew how dangerous threatening either me or my father was. But he was never scared. He never batted an eye. Because he knew we couldn't figure it out. Who his closest ally was."
She exhaled.
"In no world would I have ever guessed that Aldric and Ronan were working together." She shook her head slowly. "Doesn't his mother hate Aldric?"
