I actually laugh. “If you believe I give a single f**k what you think of me, then you’re even stupider than you look. Which I’m not sure is possible.”
“Then why are you here?”
“So that Piper never has to be again.”
He frowns. “You’re tryin’ to keep my Pip from me?”
I want to reach for his neck, but I manage to hold off. “Strangling you would set off all these machines you’re connected to and alert the nurses, so from this point on, refrain from ever calling her yours again. She does not belong to you.”
Based on the increasingly rapid beeps of his heart monitor, the nurses might be joining us in here in a few minutes regardless.
I’d better wrap things up.
“Piper deserved better than you as a child, and she sure as hell deserves better than you now,” I tell him. “If she can’t see that
