red in Hanna's t

ily, yet you balk at offering up your preciou

dare

to mask her true nature, u

three days ago. Only we know where she is. Agree to marry into the C

was tossed

as she saw the woman in the photo, the tears she

s Hanna's biol

essie, the home wrecker, Helena had

sing from the mental hospital, and Hanna

discovered her mother three days prior and wer

lling billboard, or perish in a car accident, all without anyone being in the loop! Hanna, isn't Helena

ff sharply. "You have no rig

photo of her mother,

marr

en to madness, Hanna had felt no wa

as the only person who had ever loved Hanna, the only o

anything was wor

married into the Colli

ie marriage, everyth

, merely sending a wedding car to the Murphy fa

the Collins family's villa

directly to a bed

nly by a unity candle f

e out a figure lying motionless on the

ad to be her

The corpse-like fi

g an intense presence that sent chills do

paralyzed from the waist down, with his face disfigured to th

cripple could possess such

ly familiar, as if she had

mmanded, its tone leaving

he felt something soft yet

er forward, making her fa

ooming over her, his chiseled face hovering just above hers. His cold

ally... Kay

cably labored, her voice

posed to look li

stumbled into t

's ri

ce was cold a

and fiery, like a seductive spring br

at became incre

is cold, narrow eyes betraying a

t was the sce

miniscent of an edelweiss blooming atop a snow

s scent only once before,

n that drove him mad; it was this capt

to encounter the s

to suppress his inexplicable desire for the girl before hi

n i

this feeling of

ed Hanna, subtly reining in

e met b

me man at close range, Hanna felt he

you s

e bored into her, his

utinized before, but now his gaz

feeling his piercing stare. Her already flushed

or a girl to app

nning man before, she would surel

s turned ev

, it will hur

ved even nearer as he spoke. His exqui

t skipped se

to pound wild

a breath away from hers, m

A

in left Hanna's min