The maid straightened the master’s tie and whispered a chilling warning—but what she said about the driver changed everything he thought he knew.

you already know I’m a liability.”

“No,” he replied. “I know you’re a threat to people who deserve to be afraid.”

She looked up.

For the first time, she saw him differently.

Not as the monster everyone described.

But as a man exhausted from living surrounded by betrayal.

“I don’t want to be a threat to anyone,” she said. “I only want to be left alone to continue reading …