Connor POV
“I suppose I can understand how you would reach such a conclusion,” I muse mildly, slightly tilting my head to the side and jutting my lips out in a contemplative manner. I let a moment tick by before making my voice and eyes harden, piercing through him and his cronies as if I had been forged from sharp steel instead of birthed by a human. “However, you couldn’t be more wrong. Understand this, I do not need to sink to such low extremities in order to get what I want or to achieve any goal I may have. Never needed or had to and won't ever need or have to. Not when a tactic of that sort is so beneath me that the very mention of someone assuming otherwise only comes off as an overly amusing joke if they're lucky, and an insult if they're not so lucky. And definitely not when I ha
