Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws.” “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Some break under it, some make it the millstone around their neck, some revel in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his eyes. “I know you have.” When she glared at him, he added, “It’s not as if I’m plumbing the depths of your mind, dear girl.
“You think I haven’t heard that rubbish before?”
Those black eyes, cold as a winter storm, were staring right into her heart and the sudden seriousness in his voice jolted her. “But you do see the way people look at you, devil’s child.”
