ly adjusted t
rled up on the leather sofa
s hair, gripping the strands as if
from his throat. It sounded l
flat against the door
man snapped his head up, staring dire
unched himself off the sofa w
g hand clamped a
. The air was violently
old, heavy platinum of a bespoke cufflink. The sheer, overwhelming physical power and the faint, expens
from the hallway, she saw his eyes. They wer
bient light briefly caught the sharp, aristocratic a
from countless financial magazine covers in her pas
ere, violent PTSD fla
d. The thick veins on th
rea's vision. The sensation of dying
gger a deeper violent response from a
arms felt like lead, bu
y pressed her warm, soft hands
nched violently at the su
in her windpipe. She locked her clear,
and made a soft, rhy
head," she forced out in a r
ratic breathing h
s fractured. A flicker of confu
er throat loosened by
holding it in place as she sucked in
e stumbled backward, as if
ther sofa, buried his face in
ughing violently, her hands clutching her brui
gainst the wall, waiting fo
eg. The cheap denim was soaked
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