LORA'S POV
But as months passed, seeing how desperately he still tried to shield her, how much he genuinely cared for her even while I held him captive, hunger took root in my chest.
I wanted her completely erased from the equation.
My mother used to say to me. “If you want something you have to fight to get it. Do whatever it takes. Just find the right price. Just like how I did your father.”
So to have Jamie, I found his price.
Just like how my mother did my father.
Jamie’s father was a pathetic gambling addict who had dragged their family name through the dirt, leaving them scraping for scraps at the bottom of the social ladder.
And Jamie was starving for prestige, wanting to take his family back to how it was before.
I teased him with it like teasing a hungry dog with a piec
