Amelia.
I stared at Nathaniel in silence long after he said the words.
I can help you destroy him.
The sentence kept echoing inside my head while rain hammered endlessly against the car windows and city lights blurred past us in streaks of gold and white.
Destroy him.
A few hours ago, words like that would have terrified me. I would have called revenge ugly, dangerous, wrong.
But tonight, after everything Daniel had done, all I felt was exhausted.
Exhausted and angry.
So angry it sat inside my chest like something alive.
Without realizing it, I pulled Nathaniel’s coat tighter around myself. It still smelled faintly of his cologne, and the warmth of it against my skin felt nice after spending hours out in the rain.
Nothing about today felt real anymore.
Not Daniel admitting the t
