Avery’s POV
Gideon’s dangerous gaze was fixated on me as I spoke. He seemed like he was trying to see through me, to tell if I was telling the truth. His intense scrutiny made my blood turn to ice in my veins.
Ok, so maybe what I said was a bit optimistic. I don’t know that I can make this ‘relationship’ work if we remain strangers to each other. But, he didn’t need to throw me to these sharks so publicly!
His indifference might have just been his own facade, but he was the one being naive if he didn’t think these women would find any excuse to get rid of me and insert themselves in my place.
Their mockery doesn’t bother me, I’m used to that. They just want to see me embarrassed so they can leave the imprints of their heels in my back as they climb over my body.
I felt the deep iro
