Mira Regret's Her Heartless Billionaire Ex
She said the word the way you'd say something distasteful you'd found on the bottom of a shoe.
"That's my understanding."
Lisa crossed the room slowly, taking her time, the way people do when they want you to register every second of their approach as deliberate.
She stopped a few feet away, arms folded, studying me with an expression that was almost, almost curious.
"I want to be clear about something," she said. "Whatever you think is happening here, whatever small kindnesses you've imagined, whatever significance you've attached to a car being sent or a door being held, it isn't what you think it is."