ent the car drove away, Ewell's face darkened. He grabbed Katrin

ak doors sl

ompletely silently, her footsteps making zero sound on the hardw

ement is a joke. They are treating her like pr

h. "Then let Damaris marry him. She

!" Ewell snapped. "I am not throwing my

nister whisper. "Then you bette

stopped

ipped those neuro-suppressants into her milk every night, if I hadn't broken her mind, she would have taken everything f

ed. Her fists clenched so hard her finge

. The abuse. It wasn't a tragedy.

e. Tomorrow night at the engagement banquet at The Plaza.

ty. "To our new partnership with the Herrings." The verdict was se

he door. Adeline vanished down the hall lik

hammered with a new, lethal rage. She gra

he hidden bott

and f

klace was completely gone, v

s of the bag onto the floor. She

containing his life's medical research and the only clues to fin

brain rapidly rewound t

n with the black mask. He had rippe

ypted phone. She checked th

hicle registered to the Herring Group Executive Secur

violent, masked psychopath who stole her

her. Running away was no longer an

rrow night, she wasn't just going to a banquet. She wa