“I—I didn’t mean to,” I stammered, my voice cracking before I could stop it. “The flap got caught. I wasn’t trying to read it.”
Xavier didn’t answer immediately.
He just stood there staring at me while the silence in the office turned thick enough to choke on.
“Stop snooping through my things, Reina.” His voice came out cold and sharp. “This is the first and last time I’ll warn you. Don’t let it happen again.”
Something hot snapped inside me instantly.
Maybe it was the way he spoke to me.
Maybe it was the fact that my mother had spent years making me feel small, stupid, and worthless, and now another person was standing over me doing the exact same thing.
Only this man had been inside my body.
“I already said I didn’t mean to interfere in your business,” I shot back, my voice dripp
