Spring Beneath the Grave

er daughter off at school when her husba

ly assigned to protect them abandoned

it multiple times, teeteri

er husband, Rodger Griffit

, arrived just in time

n't Rodger assign someone t

trollably, "The bo

al, Elora kept trying Ro

after a

nnected. On the other end was the female bodyguar

were so many assassins. I would've died i

aiting for her husband's

er just

ortant thing is you

aughter took her las

was suf

ed in fury, "Hugh, I'm divorcing him! I'll cut off every single arms shi

.

and overwhelming gr

m before collapsing i

what seemed lik

families had been ene

ily endlessly for her hand in marriage, even going so far

or a lifetime. Should I betray that, ma

the blade, blood spatt

dly-but the blood flowing from her daug

long she had slept bef

thoughts. Many thing

at the Dale family home,

e saw a photo of her, Rodger, and

no reason, and te

wned, c

me? Where's Rodger? Call

as she poured water, sh

called. Mr. Griffit

frown de

ollar projects, she had said she missed him, and he would drop everything,

again, Hugh strode

uried. As her mother, you shou

zz filled El

make sense

what did

ten times. By the time she reached t

e she lost consciou

e busy tone on the phon

hed uncon

as if it had be

ed, her wails echoin

cklessly that her unhealed wounds tore open, blood soak

k urn sat on the table-the co

out, yet she couldn't b

dream, that when she woke, Franny would

y buried until it di

ntil she near

emation to burial, Rodger, the

ll just before her da

edge of death, he was flirting over the

rders, "Prepare the divorce paper

nt him face-to-face.

lora ignored the front desk and stormed stra

froze. Inside, Rodger and Lilah were ki

and you ignored her to pamper me. Aren't

nside her shirt, gra

r me, asking me to punish you. You really

a few days, then I'll handle it. I

her body trembling as if she

gravely injured, and the man who claimed he would

ar slid dow

sacrifice everything-even his life-

uction to buy the final bracelet just because she

to protect her when they mistreated her, even threatening to cut

n ambush by the Dale family's enemies, taking eighteen stab wounds

enty-seven, he

to Elora no lo

sore eyes to ke

"Recall all arms sold to the Griffiths family

showed the three of

ht smile, Elora's ch

the wallpaper to a photo o

need that m

s the embodimen

r gone, that lov

losed h

gain, they were filled

ht to Ravencrest

absurd marriage need