Chapter 112

Rose dragged oxygen into her lungs trying to find her voice, her body shaking violently, and her eyes glued to the sharp metal, glinting in the light mere inches from her throat.

“Morag please… I didn’t take him… He chose to come to me.” Rose’s voice was shaking, breathless and low, she was terrified at seeing nothing but hatred in Morag’s eyes and unsure if Rob would even get here in time anymore.

“No… NO… You seduced him… You wrapped him up and made it impossible to leave you… I know your type!… What did you do Rose?” The strangled voice and hitching hysteria in Morag accelerated Rose’s heartbeat, boosting her adrenaline. “Flutter your lashes and give him perverted sex that he couldn’t refuse, do things for him that no decent woman would do?”

“Morag, I swear… Please don’t do this, it’s not that way. He loves me. I love him.” Rose was gasping through tears, unable to conceal her fear, curling up small and trying to keep the point of that blade away from her neck.<