Chapter 80

Jayden's POV

I wanted to deny it. I wanted to push her away, to call her a liar, a manipulator, a slut even. I wanted to shove her words off the table like they were nothing, like they meant nothing, but a part of me froze. She had a way of standing there that made the air heavy, her voice cutting through the laughter, the clinking glasses, the soft hum of the violins. Everyone was still watching, even if they pretended not to be. And I didn’t know what she had on me. Not ...