CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY – A CRIME OF PASSION

"My whole life, I watched that self-important, preening manchild manipulate and ruin so many innocent souls around him," she hissed, ignoring Lance entirely. "Everyone from paid escorts to his own sickly mother, just a series of merciless, self-serving deceptions!" She took a wild step towards Kayla, fingers clenching into bony claws. "I was going to be the one to finally strip away his armor, to make him ugly and bare before the only person he's ever professed to truly care about!" Kayla felt a chill rush down her spine at the manic gleam in Sofia's eyes. This woman was unravelled into a state of legitimate, dangerous psychosis before them. "I had you, my sweet," Sofia rasped, taking another threatening step closer. "I had you in the palm of my hand, you innocent little dove. We could have been so happy together after watching his whole world deservedly implode around him!" Kayla recoiled like she'd been slapped, stomach roiling with revulsion. In that moment, Kayla felt a swell o