Your safety is not something that will ever be open to negotiation. I’ve been more than fair letting you stay here all this time—” I cut him off, his words igniting a fire inside me. “Let me stay? You let me stay here? This is my fucking home, Atlas. You don’t get to come in here acting like a king and treating me like a peasant that should bow to your orders.” He fists my hair and pulls it sharply, making me hiss as he dips his head and nips my lip hard enough to draw blood.
