*Ethan*
I am livid.
It nags at me that I have never been able to read her accurately until tonight. Suddenly, it's as though she has opened the book of her soul to me for a private viewing.
I had been vain enough to think that I possess amazing powers of observation, that I have come to know her, understand her. I had even dared to consider that there might be something more between us than the physical, that she had stirred something to life that had been dead for far too long.
I was playing a private game with several Alphas, Silverpine, and his wife, Faye. Faye, so damned skilled at cheating, can make you believe she's bluffing until you have wagered everything of value knowing... knowing... it would all be yours, only to watch with a muttered curse as she turns over her cards, smil
