My body remained immobile as I took a shaky breath.
His facial features glowed fiercely in a warning like a wild beast.
My mind couldn't grasp the intensity of the anger that shone in his blue eyes. His stature was nothing compared to the fury his face showed.
"Finley," I gasped his name the moment his hand locked my jaw, sending gripping pain to my skin as he clenched his hand. The fear weakened me like a dull trunk of a tree waiting its time to fall to the ground.
"You remember my name, my love." He chuckled and forcibly dragged me by the hair to the narrow alleyway he had emerged from. I screamed, but his hand immediately covered my mouth to silence my voice.
I whimpered in pain. Eyes wide in terror as I stared at him. My hands pushed, striking hopeless blows on his arms, on h
