Liam:
“Serves her right to know her place.” Claire said, making my eyes darken.
To say I was angry, was not going to be a lie, hell, even the word furious was going to be an underestimation to what I felt and how I wanted to react.
I waited until Alaria disappeared back inside the guest house before turning to face Claire, my jaw clenched and chest tight with barely contained anger. “Thank you for standing up for me. I did not think that you would.”
“Claire,” I said quietly, voice edged with warning. “Listen carefully, because I’m not going to repeat myself. Trust me when I say that I do not want to repeat my sentence twice when it comes to this. And I do not want to talk about this subject again.”
She stood there, her chin raised defiantly. “You don’t have to…”
“No,” I interrupted
