The heavy fists of my step-father's enforcers pounded against the steel blast doors, the sound vibrating through the soles of my shoes.
BANG. BANG. BANG.
The hallway contained a voice that shouted in panic to "Override the system! Get those doors open!" because it conveyed the message through a muffled sound.
Caleb's enormous body completely restrained me within the red-lit freezing vault space. His golden eyes shone with wild brightness as they stared at my lips from the darkened room. The warmth of his body created a suffocating heat barrier which prevented me from breathing in the cold air that filled the pharmacy. He wanted me to break. He wanted to mark me as his property by biting my neck in the shadows to disrespect his older brother.
His human size and his dominant presence sh
