“She’s notyoursanymore,” I grind out, clenching my teeth together to keep me focused on something else.
Anything else.
He broke me, and I hate it.
That I permitted it to happen.
Though all my inner warnings and the way I knew I shouldn’t have let him in, I did it anyway.
I let my enemy inside my head, my chest, my fucking heart, and he tried tokillme.
“What happened out there?”
Fuck this dude.
We’re not about to have a heart-to-heart right now.
Lifting my head, I meet his gaze with steel wrapped around anything he could try to penetrate through. “Where?”
“You know better,” he croons, the lightness to his tone is a contrast to how he’d really be if we weren’t where we are now. “You can’t be out there runnin’ around like you’re invincible.”
“What, like you?” I clip back.
“I can be when I have a whole crew backin’ me up.Youwent solo.”
“So did you when you tried to drown me in the fuckingAtlantic Ocean.”
“You killed that blonde bitch and I wanna hear why.”
I step away from him because why the hell would that be any business of his? Nonetheless, it may also help me get him away from me. “She betrayed me. She began working with Matteo. She got Levi shot.”
Torin’s demeanor finally breaks, and a full-blown scowl rakes over his features. “Just Wallace, huh? You know, I took a few bullets for that asshole.”
“Not good enough,” I pledge. “Because you’re still here.”
Ouch.
The moment the words leave my lips, I regret them.
Even for me, that was harsh. Wishing something like that on him is unforgivable. I’d never mean it. Regardless of what happened…I may not have asked about him constantly, but Torin isn’t Levi.
He’s the devil’s spawn.
And you can’t kill the devil.
While I believed Levi to be invincible, Torin is godly. He’s too fucking ignorant to die. Too much of an arrogant asshole to accept it.
He’d tell the Reaper to go get fucked before he’d follow him. Because he’d never be done with me until he said so and that’d be that.
Period.
Torin doesn’t move. I don’t think he even breathes as he stands there waiting on maybe an anvil to drop on his head. I wish one would, so he’d go down, and I could step over him already to end this thing.
“Can you leave me alone now?” I solicit evenly. “I think we’re through here.”
“You think I’d leave you alone?” Torin hedges like I’m the biggest dumbass alive. His voice is bleak and empty as a cold chill racks up my spine, causing my nipples to pebble in its wake.
And here we go.
