The Wife Who Returned
Hot and sticky, pooling beneath me.
I was going to die.
After everything,after coming back, after finding Lucien, after tasting what happiness could be, I was going to die on my apartment floor at the hands of whoever Adrian and Maribel had hired.
No.
Fuck no.
My hand found something solid. Cold. Ceramic.
The vase on the side table. The one Vivienne had given me when I moved in.
The intruder stepped closer, knife raised for the killing blow.
I swung.
The vase connected with their head with a sickening crack. They stumbled, crying out—a man’s voice, gravelly and pained. The knife clattered to the floor.