a P

owed my every step, his hand resting on the hilt of his

dy swung open, the suffocating hostility

steward, stood by the walls. In the center of the room, Fleming

red with dirt, the bloody scratches across her cheek serving as damning proof of my cru

asped in pure terror and shrank behind Flemi

e..." she whimpered,

said fiercely, wrapping his coat around her shiv

delivered his report in

om the cliff edge and managed to pull her up. Lady Carlisle was standing directly

silence descend

her pale face. She looked toward the dark corner of

Lady Carlisle," Audrey cried out, a fl

o push me! She just loves you so much, Gideon. She felt threatened by my

ace in her hands, h

on't want to be the reason your new wife becomes a murdere

omous stroke

htened the noose around my neck--painting me as an un

room was instantan

away with this!" Fleming roared,

itch's life! Look at Audrey's face! Look at the burn on her ha

s anger. "We saw it at breakfast yesterday! Lady Carlisle bullied poor Miss Audrey

by glaring eyes and open hostility, I stood alo

r behind a massive oak desk, completely shrouded in darkness. Th

im was pure, unadulterate

see my own breath. The immense pressure of a pureblood apex pred

in the pit o

I realized I had made a fat

egotiate with using my medical skills. But looking at the brutal, s

ocence right here, right now, he wouldn't hesitate to appea

rture my healing secrets out of me, and dragging me out in irons only when he needed my hands to purge his poi

Beaumont would turn to dust, and my fate here would be a

finally leaned forward, the faint ligh

g rumble that vibrated through the stone floor. He l

s beneath your fingernails. Do you have any undeniable

ry. "I did not push

lethal mockery. "Then prove it. Because in my

, his golden eye d

e. "Strip her of her title. Throw her into the abyssal dunge

ping forward, his heavy gauntle

ehind Fleming's back, I caught her

aura, my draconic blood boiled over. I violently

ing out like struck crystal i

f the South, my hand slipping in

le? Then open your eyes. I'l