Dayne POV
“Being back there will break her.”
Dayne didn’t take his eyes from the paper in his hand. The demand. “No, she’s stronger now. He won’t break her. She’s different. And she’s pregnant now. She has more than herself to defend.”
“But she doesn’t know. Unless you managed—”
It was the concern in his Beta’s voice that finally had Dayne lifting his gaze to meet Luka’s gunmetal gray eyes. “She was so convinced I wanted to talk about that uncle of hers, or her struggle to control her ability to shift that I don’t think it ever crossed her mind it was neither of those things.”
She’d believed he’d have to put her down. Kill her. He’d seen the fear flashing often enough in her large chestnut-brown eyes to know that she believed he’d kill her without a moment’s hesitation. And it had be
