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“Is that true?” Selina asks suspiciously. I can tell that she doesn’t believe him, and I don’t want her to, but confirming it would only make things worse for me, and they are already so bad.
So I say nothing.
“Are you teaching her any English?” Selina snaps at my husband.
Ji-hoon scoffs. “Of course I am, but Suki is dull. She can’t grasp it.”
I grasp every word.
Selina’s face screws in distaste, but instead of arguing with him, she turns to me. “We’ll-talk.”
Once she leaves, Ji-hoon enters the apartment and stomps toward the bathroom.
“I’m not staying shut in the apartment each and every day,” I insist. “People have already started to talk.”
He looks appalled that I would demand anything—that I would speak to him, even.
“She asked to take the kids to the park. I said no, though maybe I shouldn’t have.”
He snickers. “Do you really think any of them care for you? Maybe the ones with soft, womanly hearts will, but the men care more about what I can do for them than they ever will about you.”
My stomach sinks because he’s right. Ji-hoon is an important man here, just as he was before the dead rose. He’s as smart as he is cruel.
There is a place for him in this world, but what place is there for me? I am nothing. I can’t even talk to anyone.
“What exactly is it you do?” I ask, wondering if maybe I can initiate a civil conversation.
His lip curls into a snarl and he storms off to shower.
Damn Ji-hoon for making my life so miserable.
And damn Trent for making it worse.
ChapterSeventeen
DANGER
TRENT
78…79…80…
I wipe the sweat from my brow, then fix my attention on a small cluster of ragers standing idly by, but before I get a chance to annihilate the bastards, a fellow CP storms through, striking them down in three swift blows.
Damn you, Alistair.
He waves at me. I point behind him at the alerted rager headed his way.
He turns, makes quick work of the meat bag, then jogs over to me.
“Yer an asshole,” I say as I wipe my blade clean.
“And yer slow.” Alistair smirks, pulling up his face shield. “You’re also in the wrong quadrant, and without most of your gear.”
I look over at the street signs and realize he’s right.
“Shit. Don’t tell Cole. And the gear is enough to make you faint on a day like today.”
“Lips are sealed. How many you got so far?”
