ELLA

“Ella, I know you’re angry,” he said and knelt down next to me, then wiped the spit off his shoes with a rag. “But I have to explain everything that’s happened so you can understand why I have to do this.”

“I don’t want to hear anything you have to say. Your words mean nothing to me. You were right, I’ll never help you attack the Blackthorns. If you had come to me earlier with such a proposition, the possibility that I’d entertain it when I was back in Dennison and the twins were complete assholes was higher than it is now.”

“What changed?” he asked, and I stared...