Phoenix Of Ruin: My Second Life Comes With A Better Man

last choice you'll have to make between them. Your wife, or the woman you

icolas Reed's face turned grim bene

dress, delicate and trembling, every

think about me. Save Ashley. She's your wife. Knowing you're h

t-her body streaked with blood, her breathing weak,

kidnapped together, Nicolas was for

had chosen Ashley-and watched the kidnap

roline, he had chosen Ashley-an

e Caroline, he had chosen Ashley-

t the man she had loved for ten long years, still clinging to the desperate ho

spare her so m

e blurted without hesitati

lips. Days of torture had shredded her voice unti

he was his wife, so why did he look s

n her, and all she found there was

ept finding ways to go after her. For all I know, you were the one who arranged this kidnapping. If putting your own l

ad, tears blurring her battered fac

s refused

, took Caroline the moment her restraints were un

in soft, trembling little sobs that made

he tilted her face just enough to catch Ashley

cision, her lips formed t

in that brutal second, she understood this had been

o.

from Ashley's throat as she str

las spared her o

rcy in his eyes, only bare disg

he remarked aloofly. "I already picked Caroline. As for

ing sea, Caroline's shaky voice still dr

s your wife, and if she really dies because of

ly kept Caroline folded against his chest

ven if she dies, she

d her whole, the hatred in Ashley's

o her grandfather and her three older brothers. This was the man she had sacrificed her dre

ough the darkness in her mind. If heaven ever gave her a seco

.

beside her ear like a

er are you going to li

d open, and she sucked in fran

terror of drowning-only the familiar tr

e always been jealous of Caroline. Ever since she came back, you've been making her life miserabl

ed Ashley

ed her

.. Those ex

the day Caroline first set her up b