The biting chill of the evening air did little to cool the inferno raging within me. His words, a silken cord, had tightened around my throat, each syllable a calculated squeeze.
"Didn’t I tell you….. You can never get rid of me….. that we will meet soon." The exhaled breath, a soft huff against my ear, sent a shiver down my spine that had nothing to do with the cold. It was the shiver of a soul recognizing its captor.
"Tonight there’s a party at my place and you have to come…. Your friend will be coming. You can join her. I will send my driver to pick you up, as Ryan himself will come to pick up your friend."
The casual invitation, delivered with such possessive certainty, was an insidious trap. But then, the real venom dripped.
"I want you there. If you don't come, then I will make s
