Seraphina:
I hated the way she looked at me.
And I hated that she knew that she wasn’t afraid. She was showing me that she was in charge, and that she could do whatever she wanted. She was even certain of it.
“She seems to have triggered you.” Maddie said casually, raising an amused eyebrow at me as she saw me walking to the kitchen. “Alessia hadn’t raised her voice. She hadn’t trembled. She hadn’t softened the edges of her words to make them easier to swallow. She had simply drawn a line. And you chose to step back as if it was the most casual thing to happen. You know, if anyone ever told me that someone would enter your life to do so, I would have called them insane. But I got to see it firsthand.”
“What do you want, Madeline?” I asked, and she smiled, shaking her head at me.
“Oh,
