Chapter 125 : Playing Along

*Alternate Sasha*

Stone returned again from Goddess knows where. I just knew he’d been out working on and plotting the vengeance he kept talking about.

He talked about it more and more as the days went on, and a disturbing spark of madness lit his eyes now.

I realized I couldn’t stay. I didn’t know what role the baby and I were to play in this passion play of his, but I wanted no part of it.

Still, it wasn’t as though I could just walk out. Stone would come after me, and I reasoned that he’d also be decidedly less friendly when he found me.

So I watched. And I waited. And I pretended to Stone that everything was alright.

I would find my opening somewhere.

“So,” I said casually over dinner one night. “I keep hearing talking about ‘Morianne’ now and again. Is she part of your plan as well?”

Stone eyed me warily over his soup.

“I only ask because it sounds like she has a role in all this,” I continued quickly.