God of Pain novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Window
At ten past one on Sunday night, something tapped on my bedroom window.
I was awake.
I had been lying on my bedspread in the dark, staring at the ceiling.
A four-carat diamond had turned my left hand into a stranger's.
The Milton house had two of my father's men on the porch and one at the gate.
I got up and pushed the glass open.
Cormac climbed in over the sill from the old trellis, with scraped palms and leaves in his hair.
He landed on my carpet without a sound, straightened, and looked at me.
His face was white with anger.
"You put it on," he said.
"I did."
"You held out your hand."
"I did that too."
"Livia."
"Keep your voice down. There's a man under this window with a flashlight."
He lowered it to a hiss.
"I stood across the street and watched you give that man your hand.
"I thought, she's gone home.
"I thought, good, she's safe, and he's got what he wanted.
"And then I couldn't stop."
"I know."
"I'm twenty feet up a trellis in your father's garden."
"I know. I'm sorry."
He stopped.
It was the first apology I had ever given him, and his anger had nowhere to go.
I took his hand, the one that was scraped raw, and pressed it flat against my chest.
"I bargained," I said. "The nights are over.
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