Scarlett POV
I beat Delaney home by a solid twenty minutes, but the second I stepped through the door, she clocked me.
One look at my wrecked face and she was right there, brows pinched tight.
“What the hell happened to you?”
I dropped my bag and rubbed the back of my neck, the sting still fresh.
“Ran into Liliana Ashford right outside the complex.”
“Liliana Ashford?” Delaney’s voice shot up.
“She lives around here?”
“Didn’t look like it. Probably just passing through.” Her face flashed behind my eyes again, that perfect, polished mask cracking wide open.
Delaney’s gaze zeroed in on the hot mark blooming across my cheek.
“She didn’t… Babe, did she hit you?”
She knew the whole ugly history between Liliana and me.
Every damn detail.
“Yeah.” The word came out rough, more gro
