I didn’t even think to be self-conscious until I turned around to see Max standing completely still in the water. He looked like he wasn’t even breathing, his searing gaze hurling an arrow through my chest—the intensity of it paralyzing me. What? I wanted to ask, but the force of his stare was so strong that the question withered before it left my lips. “I hope that whoever did that to you died a terrible, painful death,” he said at last, words hissing like steam. “And I hope that if there is an underworld, they suffer there forever.”
he certainly will
