Ryan had been in love and he knew what love could do, but even love didn't have the patience that Amelia James had. Love didn't ignore the red flags in the relationship for six years. Love didn't stay to support their partner even when they were the ones hurting them.
She had been tolerating Alexander all this while, because she needed him to get to Ryan. She needed Alexander to understand how Ryan's brains worked. Fuck, she had even been his best friend and he had fallen in her trap.
All this while, he thought she had forgotten. The smirks he sent her knowingly, thinking she didn't know anything. She knew of their operations, inside out. Only an intelligent person would know that, and Amelia was that person.
