“Let. Her. Go.”
I’d never seen Azriel’s face like that. In all the moments when he’d frightened me, in all the times I thought his anger couldn’t be any scarier, nothing had prepared me for the emanating anger that was coming off of him at that moment.
“You letting me walk out of here, son?”
“No.” Azriel’s eyes were cold. Stone cold.
“Then why would I let you have her back?”
I felt Tom shuffle behind me.
“Don’t move!” Azriel hollered but Tom was quick. There was something cold against my temple. His gun.
Azriel’s jaw tightened.
Then Tom c****d the gun, “Drop your gun or there’s a bullet in her brain.”
Azriel didn’t hesitate, he dropped his gun and it slid across the floor. The cold steel left my temple.
“The love of a good woman, huh?” Tom said softly, “It does a lot to a man. I
