The jaw was slightly tight and was lifted, forced to face the deep black eyes of Nick Cage, and the heartbeat was too much to bear.

"If you're not pleading, what is it then?"

The cold atmosphere around, Veronica Parker is extremely uneasy. "You can deal with Isaiah's family, but I don't want it to be because of me, as if I have become a sinner."

Nick's fingers rubbed the skin of her chin, infiltrating the danger, and gazing coldly at her black eyes. "To be my woman is to atone for my sins, but what you have done is not to my satisfaction."

Veronica's nerves were tense, and her...