Chapter 61

• Baron's hand disappeared into the profundities of his jacket, a perplexing movement that oozed a disrupting certainty. A hellfire of outrage blasted inside me, my look locked onto him with an intense mix of wrath and urgency. My voice shuddered as I talked, the wild excursion I had gotten through loaning weight to my words.
• "How dare you," I murmured, my voice shudder with stifled rage. "How might you venture to grab my kids away and mesh their lives into this wiped out game."
• Baron's reaction was a cavalier roll of his eyes, a goading signal that stirred up the flares of my outrage. His tone dribbled with cold lack of concern as though my sentiments were of no outcome. "Do you genuinely accept I care about your feelings?" he answered, his voice saturated with haughtiness. "Feeling is not welcome in that frame of mind of force."