"Oh, I can totally believe every word you just said. Aldo Matthews is a conniving, lying trickster, and I can"t wait for him to leave this town and leave us in peace."
In fairness, Kailyn hadn"t said any of those things to Elayne. But she hadn"t needed to. These were the facts about the man she loathed. The man she was now married to. The gold band burned her hip inside her pocket.
Elayne had finally gotten the wedding ring off her finger after much soap and oil and prayer. She paced the length of the living room floor, getting herself worked up all over again. The impact of her heels striking the floor brought to mind a booted army storming the capitol. Her rigid shoulders were like a general preparing to give the final order to decimate the opposition. Her curled lip looked like a devi
