TAHLIA~
His eyes bored holes into me, a hard look upon his face. If I could snatch my words from his ears and return them to my mouth, I would have. As it was, I could only stare with what modicum of defiance I could muster, resisting the almost indomitable urge to step back. To shut my eyes, block out the heat of that gaze, and hide.
“Are you saying you had a hand in Rhiannon’s death?”
His voice was low, a coldness behind it ran down my back and seeped all the way to my bones.
I did my best to backtrack. “No. Of course not. You seem very bent on revenge. I was just wondering what sort of cruelty you could conceive for me. Should you deem me responsible.”
He gave me a look I could not help but return, his gaze penetrating and embalmed in malevolence, a muscle twitching in his jaw as
