Simon cleared his throat and, once again, Malcolm turned to him in surprise. He’d already broken his characteristic silence once, and now it appeared he had more to say. “There’s more you’ve done to… f**k up your relationship with Venus,” he said, amending what he had been going to say, but the words floated in the car as if they had indeed been spoken. There’s more you’ve done to f**k up… His gaze met Malcolm’s unflinchingly. Simon was not afraid of Malcolm. Malcolm considered him an equal in every sense of the word. He was every bit as lethal, if not more. No, Simon didn’t fear Malcolm, and Malcolm respected him for that. There was a pronounced hush over the car as Mason waited in anticipation of what Simon was daring to do. Suggest that Malcolm had been wrong about many things. Not

