Chapter 49. Evil

ARDEN

This woman, really.

I thought she’d screamed her last, stomped her foot, and left the balcony in a huff, just like she always did when things didn’t go her way. However, it seemed she sensed my presence, because she stayed.

“What the heck?” I gasped as she yanked me backward, hard enough that my feet stumbled over themselves.

“You’re not satisfied being an attention whore, and now you’re eavesdropping on Jaxon and me?”

I sighed and gripped her wrist. “I was on the balcony first. If you don’t want anyone overhearing your fights, maybe you shouldn’t do it in public.”

She bit her lip in frustration and seized me by the hair, dragging me across the hall like a rag doll.

“Let go of me!” I yelled, clawing at her hand.

But she was stronger than I had anticipated, powered by something far more nefarious than mere rage—pure obsession, perhaps.

I tried to dig my heels in, but she was already shoving open a door near the bathroom wing