EVANGELINE
I sank into the chair beside me, hoping to make myself smaller.
It was clear that his rage was directed at me, and in that moment, I just wanted to make myself invisible so he’d forget all about me.
I sat there, hands folded neatly in my lap as I waited for his rage to ebb. It swirled around the room like a raging sea, threatening to drown anything in its path… even me. It took him all of five minutes to get his rage under control. I counted every painful second, watching out of the corner of my eye as his breathing slowly returned to normal.
He finally turned to me, straightening his shirt as if he had not just thrown expensive pieces of china on the floor. “I accept your offer, Evangeline.”
I bristled at the use of my full name. I could count on one hand the number of tim
