The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

by K.J. Charles

“How Victorian of you. I don’t intend to sit at home doing needlework, darling. It is 1924, after all.”

“I used to cut myself,” Kim said, quite calmly. “When I was fourteen, fifteen. It...how can I put this? It let certain feelings out that would have been worse if they stayed in.”

When people are obliged to keep an eye out for threats, their eyes tend to be sharp. That’s what women’s intuition means, if you ask me: being unconsciously alert for dangerous men.