Elise pressed her lips together before answering. “I like Gaara. I want him, and I always get whatever I want. If I cannot have something, then no one else will. Especially that idiot Rodrigo.”

“If you like him so much, why are you deliberately provoking his anger?”

Elise shot Nol a sharp look. “He made a mistake by rejecting me. I offered myself to him willingly. He has no idea how many people out there want me. He must have lost his mind, thinking about another woman while he was ...