‘Do you want to explain or are you just going to glamour me into submission?’ I start, jumping straight into it as soon as the door had closed.
‘Aeryn, it wasn’t my intention to ever have to glamour you-‘ he begins.
‘Oh that’s good to know!’ I snort, ‘I didn’t realise you had that as an option, what made you think I’d ever be ok with you doing that?’
I’m too mad at him to contemplate how real this competition just got. We stood at opposite ends of the table, squaring off. The sting of betrayal, of feeling like my emotions had been invalidated by just wiping them away hurt more than I imagined. I wanted to trust him, I stupidly needed to trust him even though he warned me not to. I didn’t think that would be an actual issue I would have to contend with as a supposed ally. My heart was p
