Ruthless Amnesia
This was, for one disorienting, terrifying moment, the exact voice of the man who'd stood over me at our wedding and told me I was nothing but a debt paid.
I stared at him, my whole body gone rigid, the careful, gentle stranger I'd let myself fall for suddenly nowhere in the room with us, replaced by something colder, sharper, more certain of itself than any version of him I'd seen since the ambush.
"What did you just say," I whispered.