ortrait, the wild look in her eyes, the blood on her face-it was all too much,
lost your mind?" He grabbed her arm, his fingers diggi
t of concern, her hand reaching for Julian's arm. "Jules, don't," she
ted front against her, was the final catalyst. The bloo
an's grasp with a strength s
med to s
ore Bianca could blink, Alicia
AC
an, and absolute. It echoed in the cavernous living room, a so
an to bloom on his stunned face. He was utterly frozen, his mind unable to reconcile the
taking an invol
a wasn't
fire, locking onto Bianca. She lunged, not at her fac
el. Bianca shrieked, a high, pie
t tug, Alicia ripped
oom, the borrowed silk pooling at her feet. She let out a ch
it were contaminated. She looked down at the c
word a perfectly formed shard of ice. "You're
a heap, her feigned shock disso
er his face. He rushed to Bianca's side, yanking off his own robe and wrappi
mixture of fury and something else-a sliver of
, his voice shaking with unres
chilling emptiness in her eyes. And for the first time, a hairline crack appeared in the foundati
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