Within moments, a freezing drizzle began to fall.
The bodyguards forcefully held Willa down, absolutely refusing to let her stand up.
She stared blankly into the driving rain, her mind drifting back to the early days when Julian first pursued her.
She had been bullied mercilessly by the mean girls at her school.
They had ripped her uniform and forced her to her knees in the bathroom, demanding she bow to them.
When Julian found out, he had his men drag every single one of those girls out to the school gates, parading them in absolute humiliation. By the next morning, none of them were ever seen in Concenia again.
With red-rimmed eyes, he had pulled her fiercely into his arms, swearing that for the rest of her life, he would never let anyone degrade her or force her to her knees ever
