[Isolde]
"How can you say that?" The words burst out before I could stop them. "How can you stand there and speak to your only son like that when he's just been told he might never walk again? Don't you have any humanity? Any compassion at all?"
Nikolai grabbed weakly at my arm, trying to pull me back. "Isolde, don't—"
But I couldn't stop. Wouldn't stop.
For once in my life, I wasn't shaking in fear as I spoke to this man. Because the fury burning through me was so much stronger than any terror he could inspire.
Nicolo Quinn looked down at me like I was an insect he was considering crushing beneath his shoe. One would think that I'd have learnt my lesson after the confrontation with Camilla.
His eyes were completely devoid of the parental concern that should have been there. "Stay ou
