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Оглавление“I am bought and paid for. What happens next?”
“I continue to visit your bed or you mine until you bear me at least one son—though more would be better. Then you can go back to your family if you’d like.”
Jocelyn clenched her teeth against his words. Never had she felt so inconsequential before. Yes, she’d asked him for candour, but this brutal assessment was more than she’d expected or deserved.
With pain still tightening around her heart and soul, she lashed out.
“Did you make the same offer to your first wife?”
He reached her in the blink of an eye, his hands on either side of her face and his body against hers. His gaze burned into hers and a fury she’d never seen before blazed within his eyes. But it was his voice, almost a whisper, that struck the deepest fear.
“Do not speak on a subject about which you know nothing.” He leaned in closer, his breath hot against her cheek. “Do not say her name to me or anyone else here. Do not even refer to her in your words.”
He released her and she stumbled. Her legs would not hold her steady and her knees shook. Jocelyn fell before him.
She had dared the Beast and would not live to tell of it.
