Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Reasons for Separation

Lancelot’s P.O.V:

I watched Keith help Anna lift a heavy box off the floor and place it in the middle of the conference table and curled my hands into fists.

Did he think I didn’t notice how his hands stayed on Anna’s long enough to be more than just a friendly gesture, or did he think I didn’t notice the eye contact he had with Melinda just before doing the act? Melinda has a way of brainwashing people that they won’t even know they’re being used until the very last moment, and Keith Simons was well and truly under her spell.

Maybe this was the right thing. Keith was human and Anna had already been with him for more than three years. They were a perfect match. But for some reason, whenever I thought of that outcome, I wanted to rip Keith Simons into tiny little threads.

“How do you like the progression?” Melinda’s voice snappe