Marked, Not Kept
Wilder shut the door on Sloane.
He didn't slam it. Didn't yell. He just took the edge of it and closed it, slow, in her face, and the sound of that soft click was worse than anything he could have shouted. A slam was a man losing his grip. This was a man who didn't have to lose it. Who could take a door and close it in a killer's face like closing a book, and know she'd stay shut out because he'd decided she would. Sloane let him. That was the thing to remember about her, Maya was starting to see. You didn't move Sloane. She let herself be moved, and filed it away, and made you pay for it later.