Claiming His Stepmother
"If you miss a single night... if you so much as hesitate... I’ll show him the footage from The Velvet Room. I’ll show him the VIP receipts with my signature on them. I will watch him throw you to the street in the middle of the night. He’s a proud man, Zora. He would punish you for this lie, and his punishment would be far worse than anything you've felt from me."
He turns back to me, his dark and imposing body, against the afternoon sun.
"Do we have a deal, Stepmother?"
I look at the diamond band on my finger. I look at the door where my savior, Arthur, just stood.
I am trapped in a house of glass, and Ethan Reynolds is holding a handful of stones.
"Yes," I whisper, the word tasting like p