Left For Dead, I Returned A Queen

arty. He then ordered me to give her a blood transfusion, knowing my heart condition

stity, his pregnant mistress, and then publicly ordered me out of our master suite. Chastity, who had faked her pregnancy, then framed me for an attack. Dominick forced me to give a blood transfusion to

aking his promise of a divorce. I was nothing more than a debt payment, a pawn in his brutal game. Knowing he would never truly let me

pte

is

lar gown, watching my husband rest his hand on another woman's pre

n't shatter. I didn't scream. I

bottle that cost more than my father's life

even men before his twenty-fifth birthday and doubled the family's territory in the last three years.

supposed to

had brough

the swell of her stomach, a stark contrast to my pale,

through the crowd of made men and their silent wives. Every eye in

ust a code for the men. It was a cag

il and twice as slick, met mine. There was no apolo

that used to make my toes curl. Now it just m

ying the child I couldn't give him

tectively over her bump. "Dom thought it would be safer if I s

d at Do

steady. I had practiced this steadiness in the mirror fo

ok a sip of

eds comfort. She'll take the master suite. Y

left t

iage bed in front of the entire organization. He was stripping me

dded

wish, Do

rble floor. I needed to get to the bedroom before they did. I need

e corridor when I h

by a massive floral arrangement

d-in-command, chuckled. "I bet you ten grand s

drifted over, hea

uiet. Obedient. And her father's debt is paid as l

st. It was the only thing I had left of my mothe

pulled the small duffel bag from the vent. Cash. A burner phone.

ve, but the doo

hastity clinging to h

inick asked. His eyes dro

guest room, like

yes zeroed i

"That bracelet. It would match my dress perfectly. And since

said, my grip on the bag tigh

ed about power. And right now, giving his mi

her, Annis

N

n he married me. Not when he forced me to cut ties with my si

rature in the room dropped. He grab

s face inches from mine. "Everything you have is mine.

rough fingers and h

looking directly at me, she pulled the del

," sh

nappe

d across the hardw

grabbing her finger. A tiny drop of blood w

shrinking back against Dominick. "Sh

see through it. But Dominick didn't

tumbled back, hit

ze," he

I had spent nine years trying to plea

" I

orted with rage. He

I forget that I

he floor. I walked out of the penthouse, down the

iting at the curb. T

from the driver's seat.

Annis,"

ck at the building that had been my