ard, his hands held up in a p

uttered, his eyes darting to the guns po

t to finish

stance in three massi

the floor before his hand shot out, grabbin

th, Donovan lifted the two-hundred-pound

as a mask of abs

nd drove his fist directly int

nasal bone shatter

plashing across his dirty shirt. He sc

the man's massive body against the m

and delivered a brutal, calculated

ac

ckward at a horrifyi

like a sack of wet cement, howli

ack of the head with the butts of the security team's rifles. They dr

d over the w

made Italian leather shoe directly over the boss's right

d his weight,

nes popping and crushing under th

m the sheer pain, his h

g away. "Make sure he never works in this city again. And for that

ous man by the collar and dragging him out,

to a heavy, suff

ed off his dar

who was still sitting on the floor, her kne

down in fr

o the violence he had just unleashed, he wrapped his

dy heat, carrying the sharp, masculin

ound herself. She stared at him with wide, terri

thumb gently brushed against her cheek, wi

ent a strange, phantom

her head away

sped, her throat raw.

, dark chuckle that v

under her knees and the other behind her ba

instinctively grabbing his bro

ing against her chest. "My medical team is already

and set her down gently on the only piece o

shions, pulling his jacke

didn't s

on the armrests on either side of her, trappi

s burning with a possessive fire th

low, absolute command. "From this second forw

yle f

of his words snapped

dulous laugh es

ing up at him. "I don't need you

closer, his face

l you out of the hell you just fell into,"

a victim, but like a pri

lling into fists in her lap. "We have nothing left