EMBER’S POV

Goddess.

Anything we did against her now could be turned into exactly the story she had already started telling.

Knox had gone soft. His new wife had filled his head with lies. He had humiliated his own family to keep her happy, searched an innocent woman’s belongings, found nothing, and still refused to let it go.

Hale would fucking dine out on it.

“So we’ve been playing into her hands.”

“I don’t know that yet,” Rayana says. “But if you want me to think like her, then yes, that is the possibility I would take seriously. I would assume she is one step ahead until she proves otherwise,...