Chapter 35
Understanding hit me like a rock to the head. Grace hadn’t been requesting an apology. She’d been using twin-speak, begging me to attract Clarence’s attention.
And I’d done so...but only through sheer dumb luck.
It was clear my twin knew that. Clear that she resented my lack of faith in her abilities, my assumption that she’d be unable to strategize while a dagger was tearing away her beauty. Rather than meeting my gaze now, she averted her eyes, staring off into the dripping distance.
Grace wanted me gone. I knew this as surely as I’d known where she was located during the DAR luncheon. But that wasn’t our only problem.
Clarence was strong despite the rope cutting off his oxygen. He reached back, blindly but successfully. His fingers snagging in Grace’s hair...
...And I r
