Talia’s Point of View
“No, I am not fine,” I spat the words back at Asher slowly. One by one they had dripped from my lips like acid. I had never been so angry in my entire life. Not after all those years of torment with him in high school, not after finding out my boyfriend in California was a cheater and a liar, not after I had his psycho mistress show up at my workplace and cost me my stable job, and not even when I found out my so called boyfriend had changed the locks on our apartment and kicked me out. No, this was next level of angry. A level I was almost certain I’d kept reserved all these years just for Asher Hale.
“What? What’s wrong? Are you hurt? She didn’t hurt you did she?” The question flew so quickly from Asher’s mouth I almost had whiplash. Not even his desperate attemp
