POWERLESS
“Oh, what’s wrong with me? Everything, right? You’re always the right one. I’m always the one who’s wrong. The stupid one for asking too many questions. The idiot for wanting the truth.”
He exhaled harshly, frustration seeping into his tone. “Isla—”
“And you?” I cut in, my voice trembling with anger. “You’re perfect. The good, old, powerful Alexander Blackwood, who controls everyone and everything.”
His jaw tensed, his eyes narrowing as if trying to decipher whether I had lost my mind.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
I yanked at my arm, desperate to break free. “Let me go.”
“Oh, no. I won’t,” he said through clenched teeth. “Not until you tell me what the fuck just happened.”
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