ess swimming in them. She looked at Ariel,

ailed, her voice trembling with fake fear.

ecording, turned his anger back o

could speak,

knocking hard against the sharp edge of the vanity table in her haste to dodge, and Lacey, as if stum

out, soaking the expensive rug and splatt

scream. The skin on her forearm inst

es wide. She hadn't expect

er at Ariel. "Garrick! She pushed me! She tried to hurt our

less, sickeni

ht there. The red arm, the spilled coffee, the crying pregnant woman. In

was animalistic. "Ariel Melton!" he roa

outed, backing up against the

He was blind with fury, his ha

e, he had never hit her. But now, for this woman, he wa

ap nev

with a sickening thud a

pened h

appeared out of nowhere. The sound of the scream had been his signal. Hearing it from the bottom of the stairs, he

ovable-was wrapped around Garrick'

ollo

as Holloway's grip tightened. He tried to yank his

rick snarled. "T

id of emotion. He looked at Garrick

ut carrying the weight of a death sentence. "Do