Chapter 44

• The whole place was becoming disgusting, he was disgusting, what happened on Tuesday with Jade had completely thrown him off, she had the ability to hurt him every time she spoke to him and made him feel all the contempt she felt.
• Perhaps it would be best to let her go, thought a part of him, accustomed to everyone he loved always ending up despising and abandoning him. But another part, the one that clung to getting his way and making others suffer for the pain he had experienced, did not give in so easily. His determination was that if they did not want to be voluntarily in his company, then he would force them, and to Jade's misfortune, that wounded part of the man was the one that prevailed.
• "I'm not going to give up on you, Jade, no matter what I have to do, what tricks I have to use. If the only thing that works with you is blackmail, then that's what I'll use. But I won't let you go free to run into Anderson's arms," he thought resentfully.