"But I will promise you one thing... The only murder I will be doing my time for is... yours."
The threat managed to make Spencer go pale but in the next moment he rallied and instead gave her a smile as he stepped forward and said," You know, Mel, you're walking a very thin line. Keep going down this path, and you'll end up with Adam. Dead. Gone. Just another name etched into a slab of stone."
Spencer paused then letting the words settle in. "You should be begging me to save you instead. I could still make this all disappear. Make the charges vanish. The police might listen to me better than they might listen to you..."
He reached up and mockingly brushed a strand of hair off her shoulder, his fingertips not quite touching her. "Come on. Say the word. Show me you still know how to be smart. Show me the old Mel who would smile at me and bat her eyelashes, believing that I will listen to her. I just might, Mel... for old times' sake..."
