“Don’t let Kane’s words affect you. He says a lot of things he doesn’t mean,” Jake said as they walked to her hotel.
Eve tried to smile but knew it was half-hearted. “I think he meant this, Jake.” Eve had seen many of Kane’s mood shifts in the past two days. Some hot, happy, sad, but mostly angry. She didn’t know how someone could hold so much anger inside of them. It was like a festering wound, oozing out of him. Unable to heal.
Eve would never forget the look he gave her before taking Mina home. The anger radiating off of him that he directed fully at her. She had foolishly thought it wasn’t her he was angry with, but was taking it out on everyone around him. After the dark looks he’d cast at her throughout the night, she knew she was just fooling herself. Kane didn’t want her around
