Chapter 5 · free to read
He hung up smiling. In my experience, that was always the most dangerous thing a man like him could do.
I had seen Do-yun cornered by a whole board. I had never once seen him look afraid. He looked afraid now.
I understood the fear the instant the doors opened. He had Do-yun's exact eyes — only where Do-yun's went quiet, his had gone to ice.
He looked at me the way you look at a number on a page. Deciding, in one glance, exactly how much I was worth to keep or to erase.
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