denied a targ
threw it open with a crash. Cold w
he roared, his face a mask of fury, "the
p brutal. He was stronger.
, offered no resistance. He dragged her across t
d. Sharp gravel bit into her kn
oking down at her. His eyes were cold, me
own her since she was a child, turn
hat could curdle milk. F
it sped away, kicking up a spray of mud t
er knee a hot, pulsing thing. She didn't
nning. The Montgomery
fresh wave of agony through her right knee, aggrava
cent silhouette of Montgomery Manor. H
e began
One foot in front of the other. She ignored the curi
worse things. A beating in the dark. A burn from
d from behind, heavier and more
icker of a desperate, childish impulse to
llowed
of anyone anymore. She
painful pace. The emblem on its door was a wolf's head, rendered in stark, intimidating li
leather glove push
ged from ice. Platinum blond hair
istair
rp second. The man she had once looked up to.
of a second on her bleeding knee. His expression was a blank sl
silence, his quiet agreeme
n her mouth, lowered her eyes, and dip
as cold as his
request. It w
e said softly, her voice steady. "But my station
. A refusal he couldn't argue wit
ible tightening. The temperature inside th
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