Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 780

No way...

Was it that suffocating cloud of smoke when I opened the door?

God, what a cheap trick.

I've been around the block, seen every dirty play in the book. But Dan? This bastard's got a whole new level of low.

He strode over, long legs eating up the space between us.

The pressure he gave off made it hard to breathe. Instinctively, I stepped back.

"What-what do you want?"

Shit! Was he really going to pull the same crap as he did at The Night Owl? Was he going to tear me apart all over again?

"If you even try, you jerk, I swear, this time I'll kill you. No more mercy."

"Mercy?" Dan let out a bitter laugh when he heard that.

He sat on the edge of the bed and yanked me into his arms. "Yvonne, you really think you went easy on me that night?"

You came at me with a damn SWAT team, totally caught me off guard.

And when you made your move, you sure as hell didn't hold back. You were out for blood.

I glared at him, cold as steel. "What do you think?"

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tell if someone cares about you or not? I'll admit it, though-I

couldn't even tell if someone's feelings were real or

blind I didn't see how many times you used

damn, I was really an

ever end up handing my heart to you, letting

clamped his hand around my wrist, his

really wanted to kill me

He wasn't blind.

He'd seen it all.

wanted him dead,

gaze, steady. "Yeah. I

about to hide it.

laughed at that-bitter, almost mocking, with an edge

sadness in his voice made

was he sad about? Was

one who played me, used me, faked his own death just

me.

there looking all tragic? Please. Give me a

stood, straightening his shirt sleeves where they'd

"So, what now, Yvonne?"

a look. "What

eyes of his still carrying that fake tenderness, even in this heavy, stifling

to admit, once upon a

those years he was gone, every

me, I convinced

was something genuine there.

he came back, that illusion shattered for