Sadistic
"So what are you going to do?"
Libia felt a burning heat in her chest. She had thought she was in love with this man, but she didn’t even really know him. What little she did know was bad. She had a bad habit of seeing things that weren’t there. She’d been caught in the moment, tangled in his sheets. He’d broken her heart. That’s how men like him were—commitment-averse, maybe not even attracted to her. It was all part of his revenge. And then, she realized with horror, her aunt’s accident might not have been an accident at all.
"Tell him to come in," she said, struggling to keep her voice steady.