r! You can't just lea

door of the master suite. The sound was dull,

eating footsteps or the chime of the elevator. Nothing. Just the

o killed h

. Dante had always been a shadow in her life, a boogeyman her br

is bedchamber while he w

ragged hitches. The room that had felt like a den

pet, the hem of Dante's oversized ro

survive seven nights with a man on the edge o

er of the room. It was minimalist, car

s a leather-bound journal and a stack

ontract was over. Julian would be behind bars b

ers trembling, and turned

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of a younger, devastated Dante standing beside a casket.

r was linked to Black

had burned her. Her father's company. The r

t her to humiliate Julian; he wanted her because she was the

al click sounde

leaping into her throat. She barely made it to

re bruised and bleeding, and the scent of rain and copper clung to him

whispered, her vo

t with a slow, deliberate turn of the wrist. He lean

diated was replaced by some

?" she asked, ste

h a storm of adrenaline. "He's gone. Folded like a lawn chair the mom

what happened t

pings, shifted just an inch out of place. His exp

blink, crossing the room and

n digging,"

ing me for a revenge that happened a decade ago,

f mine!" Dante roared, his face inches from

ld, Sienna. I watched my father bleed out on the a

d now, here you are. The precious Blackwood princess, offering he

cried out, tears finally spilling over. "If you

her body in the silk robe. The anger didn't leave his face,

ur father is to take the one thing he kept pure," he

ve wanted to ruin you since t

otic. He reached out with his bruised hand and til

y bad evening. I n

ike this. Not whi

ile I'm angry,

f the robe and pulled her into him, his mouth crashing o

sperate, demanding, and t

her. Instead of shoving, she found herself clutching

l force, a fire that threatened to

both of them pant

ly wrapping around his waist. He dropped her onto the black silk

e whispered against her throat. "I'm going

ed earlier. He didn't use it to bind her hands t

knot behind her head. "If you can't see me, you c

heightened instantly. She could hear the r

. She could feel the dip in the matt

, her hands searching

he com

ere he wanted her to feel his power and gentl

emorizing a map, his touch leav

th his lips. He was thorough, patient, and absolu

as drowned out by a primal, over

o meet his touch, her breath coming in short,

the grip of a man who was as m

und. Dante didn't stop until she was trembling, her skin

old off, the first light of dawn

ring. Dante was looking down at

silence. He looked like a man who had gotten exa

turning his

" he said, hi

tching the sheets to her c

to get the rest of your things. You have three hours. If

ed into the bathroom

had survived the first night, but she realized with a jolt of terror

d her bag by the door and made her way to the elevat

ck sedan was waiting for her. The

na looked out the window. She felt like a stranger in her own

hurried inside, wanting to see Julian, to deman

ment, her heart racing.

les were overturned, and the gl

lia

its hinges. Julian was slumped against the wall

with terror-filled eyes. "He came back

? Da

ng his head. "The other one.

s hiding, he's going to kill us both. Sienna

rother and tightened i

two monsters, and she was the o