om. The sound of his leather dress shoes on
ace crumpling into a mask of victimh
trembling finger at Eleonore. "And when I confron
glance-cold, final, absolute. She recoiled, her lips pressing shut despite her ob
amrod straight. She watched the pathet
r. His gaze, cold and sharp, cut straight
but the coldness in his eyes was something new, somet
poke, but his voice carried to
ferred t
ufactured sobs died in her thro
outh agape. "You... wh
e low and menacing. He glanced at his stepmother with
off his arm as if it w
e directly to
ant to retreat, a primal instinct to flee
ing flickered across her face. Hope, perhaps.
ressed directly against the raw scrape she had gotten earlier that day at the office
efore she could stop it. She b
notice. Or if he d
oice a low, vicious snarl, "
. Turned to ash. So he didn't believe her after all. He
. "What's wrong, Avon? Worried your l
e like gasoli
up to grip her chin, forcing her head
hissed, his face inches from hers. "Don't you
ears, but she refused to let them fall. She bit down harder on
. A war was raging inside him, visible in the frantic pulse at
ing a hand through his perfec
The rage had settled into something colder, more dangerous. "Fr
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