Chapter 12 - Gage Gage sat in his Special Room again. He was so enraged that the world seemed to present itself to him entirely in hazy shades of red. How could Carolyn have turned him down so bluntly? Couldn't she see how much effort he'd put into their evening? Sure, he knew that girls had to put up a disinterested front at first so they didn't seem easy, and when they saw men get violent with other men, they felt like they had to clutch their pearls and act all shocked and scandalized even if they were secretly turned on by it. And Carolyn clearly had her whole “classy professional lady” act going on, so she felt like she needed to go the extra mile with all that. All right. Fine. But goddamn it, how long was she planning to keep up the charade? How long did she expect him to wait b

