Morett

a glass shatterin

ck had dropped a

ed at

y looke

bird that needed protection. I

saw a

o had twisted my h

ed me agains

sacrifice my own

dead beca

gone becau

or me with trembling hands. "Baby, p

n't s

The paper that detailed the de

into a tight b

I m

was an instinct. A primal need to d

khand

with her cheekbone w

blow lifted her c

rashing violently in

blood splattered across

the fl

oom g

med, clutch

wailed. "You

t my baby!"

rough my throat,

a rat's

around

er like the exe

in her eyes. For the first

g to a lethal whisper. "I gave you my protection.

table leg nex

nched v

d at me. You ca

, plea

words tasted like ash and bile. "You

ed at

er," I

mmediately. They grabbed Sofia

her heels scraping usel

ou! It was Serge

ver leaving hers. "Keep her alive. I want the

agged h

the hallway, swallowed

in the center

estroyed. The

divorce papers still

a Fa

d sign

told me

he ha

the pape

om, past the stunned gu

into the coo

outed at my driver.

os

reamed. "We're g

to fin

tell he

d to

n glass from Chicago to

the car, a text mess

rom Rocc

's br

s a p

the Villa g

a me

tti, and I will send you b

ped th

t the seat and let out a scr

e King o

was a

he only thing worth ruling was the