It is a kind of blindness, and it had cost him the one true thing anyone had offered him in a long time, and he did not even know it was gone.

“This conversation is over,” I said.

Chapter 20 — The Line He Crossed

“I’m walking through that door,” Gavin said, “and she is going to explain herself to me to my face.” He moved to shove past my shoulder toward the handle, and I shifted, smoothly, to stay between him and the door.

“You are not coming into my home,” I told him.

He laughed, an ugly, disbelieving sound.