Chapter 96
Rhett stood in the middle of the room as though someone had pulled the floor out from beneath him.
For several seconds, nobody moved.
Vivienne's cheek was still red from the slap. A thin line of blood had dried near the corner of her mouth, and her breathing came unevenly as she stared at Harper with a mixture of outrage and fear.
Harper, meanwhile, had returned to her plate.
She picked up her fork, speared a piece of chicken, and chewed it with the exaggerated calm of someone who had just insulted another human being's entire existence and felt absolutely no remorse about it.
Rhett's eyes remained fixed on Vivienne.
Then he walked toward her.
"Come with me," he said, his voice dangerously controlled.
Vivienne immediately reached for his arm.
"Rhett, please, I don't th
