LIORA The address that was sent to me was that of a very beautiful villa, which I suspected belonged to Kane, but it turned out to belong to a man I know nothing about. The man, looking as intimidating as Ryder whenever he is pissed, walked into the living room, his eyes slowly taking in my seated form with a small scowl. There was something about the way he looked at me that immediately put me on edge. Not because I was scared. I simply didn’t like being examined like I was some kind of problem he needed to figure out. “Stop looking at her like that,” Kane warned, placing a hand on the man’s shoulder and giving him a gentle yet warning squeeze. “You are going to scare her if you keep looking at her like that, and I am sure we both do not want that.” I don’t know who this man is, an

