a's
e a gunshot. My palm burned, the skin on my hand st
so hard the muscle was a white-hot cord beneath his skin. For a heartbeat, the
is eyes weren't just gold; they were molten
that made the glass walls of the office vibrate. "I saw you. I saw you dra
of his accusation
that what you call it when someone saves your life? I almost died on tha
as I watched his expression. He didn't look surpri
n't tell me. That black SUV. the one that mi
rs loosening the silk tie at his throat as if the air in the room had become too thin for h
man's blood. I had sacrificed my future, my health, and my very soul to ensure he stayed on that throne. And he hated
ay to you. Caspian Thorne is the next man I've found. He's brilliant, he's kind, and he actually looks at me when I spea
nish, but it was joined by a da
like a leech," Silas said, stepping closer until hi
contract is up-you kick me to the curb for a disgraced doctor? Tell m
d, looking him
ngth and his fatal flaw. He could tolerate a wife who hat
l so much disgust for me that he would sign
have to wait another month, reapply, and go through the thirty-day cooling-off period all ov
voice dripping with fake venom. "A means to an end. But
ited for him to shove the papers
e grabbed my chin, his thumb pressing into the soft skin beneath my jaw, forci
out it," he growled
, confuse
to show me he wasn't letting go. "You're the one who forced this marriage on me three years ago. You're the one
k and stormy. "The more you want this divorce, Lana, the less I'm inclined to
ear yourself? You've spent three years telling me I'm a burden! You've spent three
back to his desk, dismissing me as if I were a subordinate who
ge and desperation. "Are you absolutely sure you want to s
," he said, h
e for divorce after we've been
around, his
t. Otherwise, as for your gamma friend's small business. I can
issed, "That's low! Maya has n
e Northern Hemisphere. If he wanted so
s!" I shouted, but he was alr
aid coldly. "Take
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