Chapter 17Uncharacteristically, Nilsson swallowed as he took the sealed note from Harlen. It needed no great perception to read the messenger’s demeanour; fear and distress radiated from him, shot through with a raging anger that was struggling against its enforced silence.
That damned girl’s run away, Nilsson diagnosed. He felt his stomach churning.
Rannick’s power and ambition he could live with and, with care, use to his own ends. It followed a simple, brutal logic. But a woman on the scene was like a crazed horse in a cavalry charge: capable of causing unknown mayhem. Who could say which way Rannick’s dark malice would strike if he’d truly become infatuated with this stupid b***h?
Harlen’s fear leaked directly into him as he fingered the letter. Whoever delivered this message was at
