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Sophie Lawson’s hands shook with terror as she watched Alex leave again. This time, though, he hadn’t been angry at her.
He’d come back late last night and hadn’t said a word about pinning her up against the wall. She wasn’t about to bring it up, either. She’d already seen what he was capable of when he was under pressure.
That was Alex’s problem, she’d come to realise. He’d never been under pressure before. Not really. He claimed his job was stressful, but it wasn’t. It was just busy. For the first time in his life, the walls were closing in on him and he didn’t know how to handle it. That wasn’t his fault. But when she’d seen him resort to violence as his only answer, she knew he wasn’t the person she’d married.
He didn’t seem like a man who was panicking because he was about to b
