Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

That’s the only way you can connect.”
He threw the towel down, calmer than before but still…
still not with me.
“Thinking back now,” he mused solemnly, “I wonder if
anything I got from you was real.”
I didn’t know if he was right, and I didn’t care. I
maneuvered, he maneuvered, and I moved again, always with
my win in sight. I did what I had to.
The trouble was, I didn’t want to annihilate Will, and if I
won whatever game we were playing, would I destroy him in
the process? Was what he said true? Was it impossible for us
to end any other way?
“If you hurt Winter, you’ll deal with me,” he said.
I righted my clothes, swiping the rain off my lapels. But I
didn’t respond. He knew I wouldn’t heed his warning. I let
him dole it out anyway.
“And Michael,” he added. “And Kai.”
“And Rika and Banks?” I threw in.
“And Alex.” He shot me a sinister little grin, meeting my
challenge. “Our army is bigger. You have no one.”
“All I need is me. One person willing to do what none of
you will.” I paused and added, “You don’t have the stomach
for this, Will. Don’t doubt that I will do whatever I have to
keep what’s mine. That little girl belongs to me.”
He hesitated, looking me up and down and then meeting
my eyes with resolution. “She doesn’t want to belong to you,
Damon.”
I planted my hand on the gray-tiled wall, letting the hot,
rainfall shower water cascade down my neck and back.
She doesn’t want to belong to you.