She had only been persuaded, so gently, to go to sleep.

And Dorian, Linnea thought, had just made the single greatest mistake of his careful life: he had finally done something cruel enough to wake her up.

Chapter 4 — What She Chose

That night, still in the house after they’d gone, she had gone through Dorian’s study and his travel things and found what a careful CFO knows how to find: hotel reservations, jewelry receipts, a second phone.

Hurt and shaking with a fury she did not fully trust herself to hold, she made a choice — not a violent one, but a reckless one, and one she knew she would have to answer for.

She did not touch him.