He tightened his grip on her wrists, forcing her to arch her back slightly against the wall.
"You think this is a game?"
"You think this is just some little time out where you get to vent your frustrations?" He let out a breath that felt like a warning. "Every word you spit at me is a notch on the timer."
"Every time you act like you're better than me, and every time you look at me with that disgusted expression... you're pushing me closer to hitting 'upload.'"
"And once that second video is out there, 'Madison Reed' with her boyfriend dies."
"The glamorous, untouchable starlet? Gone, reduced to atoms." Mike grinned. "Replaced by the girl in the leaked video who couldn't keep her secrets straight."
He leaned even closer, his voice dropping to a terrifyingly intimate murmur that made her skin crawl with dread.
