Theirs To Possess And Ruin
I genuinely considered hitting him with a brick just to reset whatever strange software his brain was running.
“Okay,” I said, planting a hand on the doorframe. “Let’s clear something up before I start hallucinating. You’re Atlas Blackwood. Alpha of the creepiest rogue paradise in the realm. You don’t knock. You don’t ask. You don’t do small talk.”
His gaze flicked briefly to my bare feet, the faint scars on my ankles, the tension in my shoulders. He noticed everything. Filed it away.
“And you,” he said calmly, “are Vivienne Moreau. You bite before you bark, insult when cornered, and prefer attack over retreat even when bleeding.”