"Please do this for her. Look at the poor creature. She's bawling her eyes out after all the work she did to get rid of me. Don't you feel sorry for her?"

Leon took a big breath. "Don't say stupid things."

"Everything I just said was true," Remi said, her voice steady.

"How many times have I told you?" he growled. "I'm not letting you go off to some other jerk, that's for sure. You worked so hard to get me to marry you back then. Well, now? It won't be simple to leave."

Remi looked him straight in the eye and didn't flinch. She yelled loudly. "Bernice, it's not...