Her face was obscured by a pair of shades, so I was not able to tell who she was right off the bat.

It was when she removed them that I recognized her as Rebecca.

Rebecca must have gotten used to the attention; her getup was more over the top than the last time I saw her.

The woman gnashed and ground her teeth as she stabbed a finger at my nose. “Scarlett Stovall, you slut. How the hell did you manage to still stand there in one piece?”

She did not seem inclined to veil her blood-lust toward me in the least.

I must be an idiot if I still couldn’t figure out why.

The thought of the moment when our lives hung by a thread had my fingers tighten into a fist. “Were you the one who tampered with Marcus’ car?”

“That’s right.” Rebecca raised her voice to shift the blame onto me. “So what if I did? Anyone who tries to protect you deserves to die!”

Before I could react, she lunged at me and caught me by the jaw, forcing me to look directly into her eyes. “How is it that you can manage to dodge a bullet every single time? But know that this is just the beginning. Next time, I’ll have you know what real horror is!”

grip she had on me hurt my

“Does a human life really have so

nothing to all of you? I’ll never forget how I’ve been left to die inside of that freezing cell, so don’t you dare die on me yet, Scarlett. I’ll have

that, she spat on the ground and turned to

understood why Emery had called this woman a raving lunatic

I pulled out my phone and

…..

sent Marcus his lunch, I was guilt-ridden and subconsciously avoided making eye

described it when they took his statement. He was an honest-to-goodness businessman. Genial

the accident that day; I had

all of the meat placed on his side, Marcus finally sensed that something was off. “You look distracted. Are you not used to

else I could do except come clean. “I’m sorry. That accident

almost jokingly. “It looks like

does appear to seem that

and knew that Marcus and I were quite inseparable. That

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