"Okay, take a sip of this," I went on, pressing a glass of water into her hand, fighting with every ounce of my willpower to maintain a sliver of composure. It wasn't easy: seeing her beautiful face blotched from stress and her lips trembling sent a wave of lethal protective fury through my veins.
Lucian, when I f*****g get you.
"What's that?" I asked quietly, my eyes dropping to the yellow envelope she was practically strangling in her free hand. "Come on, let me see it."
She offered no resistance as I gently pried the paper from her stiff fingers. I made quick, brutal work of tearing open the seal, sliding the thick legal documents out into the light.
The second my eyes scanned the bold headers, the blood in my veins completely froze. It was an official, high-level contestation of t
