ment. His custom-tailored suit was immaculate, his smile condescending. He completely ignored Jennie as she o

e found her looking at him with an unnerving stillness. The desperate, pleading girl he had left

sat in the chair opposite her. He adjusted the knot of his silk tie, a

th false sympathy. "The doctors say yo

She let the silence stretch, watching him,

tone wasn't accusatory, just flat. It was t

a flicker of annoyance. He cleared his

unfortunate "illness," sweet, gentle Kallie had been a pillar of support for a distraught Brenden. Ho

hey hadn't even waited for her to be declared insane befo

iously step aside," Delmar concluded, his tone shifting from sympathetic to demanding. "You

he room was heavy, broken only by

Arden asked, her v

ws on his knees, the pretense of the concerned brother gone. His voice droppe

e. The doctors here are very thorough. If you were to cause a scene, if you were to seem agita

n, her brother, was her jailer. He was calmly, coolly, threatening to bury her alive in this white-walle

now. Your dramatics, your instability... you pushed Brenden away. Kallie has been an angel through all of

you have a comfortable, quiet life. But this engagement is over. Brenden's parents have al

to crumble. He wai

her prison, her expression unreadable. She was no longer looking at hi