Betrayal's Embrace: A Wife's Vengeance

He murmured something in her ear, and she tilted her head back to laugh, a tri

ness washed over me. I ignored it, sc

I pulled her into my arms, my hands

r face ashen. "I'm okay, Char. Let's

e leering eyes of Kyle and his friends. "We're

he back door, his bloody face

ked past me at Ivy, his eyes crawling over her. "Your sister's a real

efore I could react, his thugs grabbed

gling against them. "Do

ror as he backed her into a corner. I heard her whimp

hing wildly. "I'll give you any

of tearing fabric. His friends were laughing, egging him

them jeered. "She's

le, gurgling sound came from her throat.

ore profound terror seizing me. "Sh

kicking and biting, but they held me fast. Ivy's

rd the front door, praying that Hayden would come back, that so

d up in his new life with his mistress, leaving u

gurgling stopped. There wa

c. With a surge of adrenaline I didn't know I possessed

her into my arms. Her eyes were open, v

cking her back and forth.

help, and didn't stop running until I burst through the emergency room do