Chapter 249: [Bonus - ] Provocation And Threat
"I get it, William Caroll," Rory said. "Maybe you didn’t get any love from Sidney either. That’s why you were always jealous of Liam. He got everything you never got."
"I’m not William! I’m Lennon!" Lennon said in a commanding tone. "I want you to address me by my name!"
"Well," Rory shrugged. "I’m familiarizing the name you’ll be referred to as from now on."
Lennon knitted his brows in frustration. He then smirked. Maybe he was willing to fight it. But she knew that he cannot succeed because she wants it to happen, and it is her husband who is trying.
"You’re not saying anything?" she asked.
He went dead silent, but he was staring at her without even blinking. It made her feel uneasy giving an impression of prey that was marked by a predator.
Maybe that’s why no one could get through to him. The moment he is threatened, he turns predatory.
But no, he can’t be the predator here. She’s the one who is free. He’s the one in chains. She’s not going to let him get to her.
Before knowing, she got her courage back. "You asked me here and you’re just staring at me. I don’t know what you are thinking, dad," she went gentle again.
She was pretending to be kind to him, and she felt that he knew she was pretending too. Yet, she continued that way to show him that he is not getting in her skin.
Her lack of fear will do something to him, she knew.
"I get it. You’re walking back on everything. You’re telling tall tales about how your office room turned into a shrine of dead women. I get it. You’re scared like the rest of us. It’s not wrong. The innate wish to stay alive belongs to us all. No one is the exception," she said.