The hands on my arms fell immediately and I nearly collapsed having to regain my stance. “We thought she escaped Lord Lark. We were going to bring her back to you.” The thug with brown hair managed to say over a choke as they both were quick to take several strides back. I turned around and saw Dorian. His eyes were directly back on my own. I cannot recognize the look of his glance, except the cold acrimony that they seem to hold. I think back about the warning from both Sean and Fay; do not anger, refuse, or disobey Dorian Lark. I know with a single move he could take off my head and I was pressing the line of his temper. I had left the castle without his permission. The one thing he warned me not to do when he locked me in my quarters in the castle last night as his captive. The sec

