~ LARK ~
“That… f*cking… assh*le!” Lark spat at the phone, then shoved the stool back from the island to begin pacing on the polished floor alongside him.
“Babe, let’s just think this through.” JP’s jaw was clenched, those little muscles at the back of his jaw twitching and rolling. But Lark shook her head, growling.
“He knows! He made the appointment with the doctor… he got the records! He knows this is a lie!”
“I know he does,” JP said, his heart hammering in his chest. He wanted to close his hands on that male’s neck. F*ck that. He wanted to close his teeth on it. “So we have to think this through. This is a tactic. What does he think he gains by doing this?”
“It’s just to keep me under his control! To take me away from you so you don’t get the power! It’s bullsh*t, Jay!”
“I know,
