"Max is one of your favorite people, is he?" Erik seethes. "How do you suppose he is going to feel when he finds out what you are doing to me here? Do you think Max will be pleased?"

As for the rest? What the fuck does this lunatic think he knows about his and Max's life together? Where would Max be? Dead. That's where. Dead or worse.

"Don't tell me I'm a stand-in for the father you could never stab?" Another wince and hiss as the knife slips back into him. Fuck this! "What a pathetic piece of shit you are. I cannot wait for Max to discover the truth about you. I suppose your father taught you well."