ou could hear the ice melti

er mouth opening and closin

ich made it terrifying. "You've spent five years feed

w, forcing it open with a strength that shocked the onlookers. With the

Katarin

e clawing at iron. Katarina held her there for three agoniz

e relea

aper, coughing and retching. Her mascar

mother, shrieked, rushing for

lucked from a passing waiter's tray. "I'd love to show them t

urned to Katarina, a greasy smile plastered on his face. "Kata

the bodyguards

the napkin on t

king a death march. Francis, Elena, Can

-paneled study, Fra

ancis said, sitting behin

he doorframe. "I want my mother's shares. I want the Drea

..." He slid the paper across the desk. "You sign this. It reinstates you into

like a prize horse. "It's a good deal, Kat. We were good together

Auston. She looke

the desk. She pic

?" she

en in quarters. She let the conf

all. And as for you, Auston... I wouldn't marry you i

ou think you can walk in here and dictate terms? You

nder his desk. Two large security

Francis ordered. "She stays th

d toward her. B

ne reached

her hips to generate torque, and drove her elbow into his solar plexus with a sicke

ded like a

from under him. As he fell, she didn't just let gravity do the work;

five s

, not even breathing har

ared at her, his eyes narrowing. He looked from the unconscious guards to his daughte

Francis murmured, a new la

ings while I was aw

ir, found her voice. It

ug with a bastard child! Where is it? Did i

e air in the room

owly toward Candi. Her

did yo

ldened by her own stupidity,

abbed Candi by the throat and pinned her against the bo

pered, her face inches from Candi's, "a