Chapter 230

• Tucking the extra weapon into the front of my black slacks, I approached them. Rivulets of warm blood ran down my cheek and dripped onto my white button-down shirt as I stood silently before the man who had just tried to kill me.
• His dark eyes burned with the rage of his chauvinistic ancestors as he stared me down. “You will honor my daughter,” he ground out. “She was an innocent girl!”
• I had to admire his balls. Even wrapped up in Luca’s death hold, he managed to sound intimidating. I stepped closer, ignoring the icy fire in Luca’s blue eyes that promised me a sound reprimand and maybe a go in the fighting ring when we got ourselves out of this. “I will not take a virgin whore as my wife. A woman who tricked me into this just to escape you and your tyranny.”