a P

est with the force of a physical blow, a

dash for the front door, crying out that she w

oice cracking with a pani

him to look at me, needed him to explain the six

n't even

ently shoved me backward with

e Persian rug, and I went flying

the impact. My head whipped back, and the sharp, unforgiving st

cross the side of my neck, and

y skin, and my fingers came awa

of the ruined wedding portrait, but the ja

hout a single ounce of pity in his cold eyes. "Petra suffe

ges of the room turning dark as m

a dangerous, guttural rumble that spoke of his Cosa Nostra origins, "I will

I was bleeding out on his floo

the darkness swallowed me was

Scrub this floor clean immediately-I don't w

smell of cheap bleach a

crowded, noisy ward, a rough, sc

near the privacy curtain,

se whispered. "Her husband rented out the entire

oyalty. Meanwhile, the guys who dropped this on

lipping down my cheek and soaking

e a queen, and discarded his bl

pped open, the metal rings

y ward with the fury

is jaw clenched so tight a

d, leaning over my bed, his

the movement pulling pa

talking about," I rasped,

phone directl

it!" he

ost, exposing his faked mafia hit and la

tearing apart his pristine, legitim

said, staring blankly

ng the phone back and glaring at me with pure, un

is voice dropping to a

cause you were crazy and hysterical

spun ar

t agonizing memory of my life to pr

ment, opening the bedroom door to fin

red Silas shoving me out of the way t

nding, world-ending pain, and waking up to th

twisted into a cruel sneer as he prepared his next threat