Chapter 182 — Strength Without Discipline

Raven

Executing the plan turned out to be disturbingly easy.

Scott wanted closeness so badly that all I had to do was soften my voice, smile at the right moments, and pretend his attention didn’t make my skin crawl.

I texted him first, picked his call at first ring. I listened while he talked about himself, about us, about how he’d “always known” we’d end up here. I told him this was what I always wanted, that he was what I always ...