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d silent except for Bre

the carpet-all of it seemed frozen under the chandelier. He stare

ce in this?" Brennan's voi

way, a skinny young man who had been trying to make himself i

toward the stairs, his footstep

shed against the guards' hol

ind my back and drove a knee into my spine, p

arriage contract off the coffee table, and marched back over as the assis

ox, revealing the bright red ink

my hair, and yanked my head back. My

he snarled in my face, his breath hot and sour. "Playing the lo

t fist open, squeezing my knuck

rs went numb. Brennan grabbed my thumb

t page of the contract onto the floor right in fron

my ink-stained thumb onto the signat

ined the white paper betwee

up, blowing lightly on the wet pri

as I bit my lip until it bled. The copper tast

ide him and wrapped he

still scared she'll go to the tabloids t

e, and her eyes were

ression darke

and looked down at me l

insurance," he said coldly. "I need real le

out of his pocket

p his face, making his

ing outside into the house,"

my eyes flew wide open. "Bre