Chapter 5

My eyes instinctively shot to Theo. His brows were instantly knitted together in a tightly angry line.

Claire, on the other hand, looked like she was settling in to watch a fireworks display, her eyes gleaming with delicious anticipation.

I got it. This was her play. She had set a trap for me.

She knew the original Vivian was a beautiful but empty-headed girl who hadn't even graduated from high school. Forcing her to give a public address wasn't just setting her up to fail. It was a public execution.

But it was worse than that. Digging through the fragmented…