"What are you going to do next? Are you going to marry him?"

Nick couldn't ignore the look Ezra was giving Arabella, and he couldn't resist the urge to tease.

Arabella's hand, which was sorting out the invoices for payment, paused and she said with some bitterness, "Don't make such jokes, you know I hate him."

Her voice was weak, but revealed determination.

After experiencing too many injuries, Arabella had become very calm about seeing blood. This was the first time, after seeing someone else hurt, that she had a hidden excitement in her heart.

Ezra was like her once, hurt without pity, and he did not deserve to be...