er seemed to amplify the silence. Eleanor Finch, the housekeeper with a
whisper, "Good work. Keep it up." He
sterically. That wasn't an act. I
rd the soft click of the door behind them and the s
ng footman without a glance, his
to
ed the absolute authority of a m
ua froze, turn
in annoyance. "What d
so close she had to crane her neck back to see his face. H
that did nothing to hide the sharpness of his gaze.
cast head, at the hair still sh
nt, uncontrollable shiver. If she look
between them. "Brodie, that's enough. Sh
about to be her brother-in-law." He reached out, his fin
e, exploded in Avery's mind.
rs made contact, she made the wildes
Not toward Brodie
ck, she went up on her toes, and
A desperate, frantic act of concealm
im. Her lips were soft, trembling, and cold with fear, but the pressure was fier
st block Brodie's view. I
d, his pupils contracting into pinpricks of dis
ng before him. At the woman who was so aggressive
all he could see was the sharp angle of her jaw and the frantic flutter
coming up to push her away. But Avery's arms tightened arou
through her entire body. This was
ell in ragged breaths, his eyes churning with a storm of
at his sides, the knuckles white. He looked l
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