“You lie. Even now you’re willing to continue your deceit!”
“NO,” she yelled back. “I have no reason to lie. I lost everything when I did what I did. Why the hell should I lie now? Your sister smiled coyly and practically told me to be on my way and that you were no longer in need of a pet. She said you’d been betrothed to another djinn since your childhood, and the female had finally come of age.”
Thad’s face looked murderous. His fists clenched at his sides, and his eyes turned solid black, the whites completely engulfed. “So, you were a woman scorned and decided to get back at me? Is that it?”
“I was a woman in love with a man who didn’t want me and didn’t have the decency to tell me. Or at least that’s what I thought.”
“In love?” he spat out. “You never once hinted you felt so stro
