Skeletons in the Snow

VANCE’S POV

There is nothing more grating in this world than the laugh of a man who believes he has won.

Mateo Castillo lies in the snow with blood pouring from his nose and a gash splitting his eyebrow and his expensive coat soaked through with crimson, and he is laughing.

A wild, genuinely terrifying laugh. Deep and delighted and utterly unbothered by the fact that I just rearranged his face wit