Treachery in Death (In Death, #32)

by J.D. Robb

According to the marriage rules, she needed to contact Roarke, give him her ETA.

“I’m waiting for the corollary, where you remind me you married a criminal. But we can consider that unsaid.”

“I suppose you and I have little patience or sympathy for father issues that don’t involve violence or real abuse.”

upshot is she’s a stone bitch with daddy issues and a thirst for power, status, and money.”

“No. You’re wrong. You need to use it. And when you end this, you’ll know that what you made yourself from a nightmare beat what she made herself from normal. More, Eve, you’ll know that’s why you beat her.”

she can’t grasp or accept it’s not essential to be the smartest person in the room, but to be sure the smartest person in the room is working for you, she was destined to fail.”