"Then what were you doing in all those whore houses, pray tell? Admiring the view from the windows?"

He slanted her a long, narrowed gaze. "I thought you killed Celie. All right?"

"Not really. But do go on."

"I thought you killed her. See? But, even then even then, thinking that you had, the reason I wanted to hurt you wasn't as simple as that."

"What?"

Not as simple. God, the rage she tried to master in that instant was too great to govern. It ...