Chapter 76 Big Happy Family

• He snorted. "How long did you think it would take for all of us to find out? We're a family, Nadia," he said mockingly, "whether we like it or not. Things get around. I… suspected last year, when he came over with his fucking outrage, making threats he had no right to make. But then I heard nothing else about it. So, I figured, whatever you'd started with him to piss me off, you'd come to your senses and ended. But again, Nadia?" he asked in reproach.
• She glared at him, fighting with herself and her inner demons, the ones he brought out in her; the ones guiding her through flight or fight. But… she had spent years learning how to exorcise Quinn and what he did to her.
• He was a walking trigger, and only two other people on Earth were bigger triggers to her than him. Right now, as he held her gaze, he was pushing all her buttons, and he knew it. And Nadia saw it all so clearly suddenly: Quinn wanted to keep her on edge and off-kilter, the way he had done so throughout their entire marriage, to control her through her own fears, so that every time she broke just a little, he would pretend to be the one to put her back together.