RONAN BLACKWELL

She tilted her face towards me with that furious stare landing somewhere just shy of mine, and something vicious inside me tore loose. Rage flooded through me hot enough to split my skin, and no matter how slowly I dragged air into my lungs, I could still see Sebastian's arms around her.

I wanted to rip them from his body at the shoulders for daring to put his hands on what belonged to me. I had spent years clawing my way towards this marriage, swallowing every humiliation and feeding every grudge until Aurelia Marlowe finally stood beneath my roof wearing my name, and that bastard had touched her...