Sadie’s POV
"No. She's yours too. But right now, she's standing in a school surrounded by people who are being fed lies about her parentage, and the only person in this town with the power to make that stop is me. So I'm going to stop it. And you can be angry about how I do it, but don't ask me not to do it."
He held my gaze for a long moment. The other people in the lounge were frozen – a graduate student with his hand halfway to his mouth, a secretary who had stopped mid-reach for the sugar bowl. They could feel it too. Whatever Taylor was, whatever he carried inside him, it was leaking out through the cracks in his composure, filling the room with a pressure that made it hard to breathe.
"Fine," I said. "Handle it. But if you make things worse for Lily, I swear to God, Taylor–"
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