It’s why he sees me in a different light.

Alexi knows the worst of my years. The worst of me.

He knows everything he could use to snub out the last of me. He knows things I would never tell another living soul. If he wants to destroy me, he has had the power to do so for however long he has had these books. More fodder than I would have given him in a lifetime of living in this club, all in a concentrated, potent dose.

Yet he has done nothing except avoid it. He had so ...