“Last time, you’d rather die than sign the divorce papers—all because you couldn’t let go of your status as the head of the Windermeres. Now you knew today was our baby’ celebration, so you used that damn sponsorship to threaten Barrett into disappearing, didn’t you?”
I was so stunned I couldn’t even speak.
She gripped my neck tighter, cutting off the last of my air. I clawed at her hand, my chest heaving as I struggled.
I choked out, “You’ve got it all wrong! I swear… I don’t know anything—”
“Garland,” she hissed, “my patience has limits.”
Then she flung me aside and barked orders at the bodyguards. They tied me up while she stood there, unreadable, lighting a cigarette.
“I’ll give you five minutes. Tell me where Barrett is. Or I’ll make sure you lose the only family you have left.”
My head snapped up, my eyes blazing red. “Don’t you dare!”
My parents died when I was young. The only family I had left was my younger brother Ashwyn. We relied on each other to survive.
Cherity understood human nature all too well.
She knew exactly where my weak spot was.
But my brother had already paid the price once. There was no way I’d let her drag him down again.