I wanted to kill her. [There was venom and violence in her tone, and her posture was all sharpness and angles. She didn't want to think about this anymore. She didn't want to have Denise's words running her head like one of Jarod's games. Even Jarod hadn't gone that far, and he had been determined to ruin everything in her life forever.

She looked to him when he ended up on the floor next to her, her eyes rimmed with red and shock. She nodded to Paddy quickly.] I tried teling her that he loved me in his way, but she wouldn't hear it. And then she brought up my mother and how I was dishonoring her memory and... this fucking game, all the shit that has been played here, I just can't do it anymore, Paddy. I can't play a game when the fucking rules keep changing. I want to go home.