* Chapter 111

The sound startled Heidi, sending a tremor through her body. She whipped around to face lan. “lan, the night Attorney Clara ended up with Anders, someone had drugged her. It wasn’t intentional, so please, don’t hold it against her.

With the nonchalance of someone unaffected, Heidi reached for a towel, intending to mop lan’s brow, but he pushed her away brusquely.

His icy gaze locked onto Clara. “Spit it out. What the hell happened that night?”

He yanked Clara off the chair and into his arms. Beads of sweat from his brow traced the line of his jaw, dripping onto Clara’s face.

Clara met his stare, her expression unreadable. “You saw it all, you heard it all, didn’t you?”

“You were drugged, and that’s why you ended up with Anders, correct?”

make a difference? In your eyes, I’m tainted either way, aren’t

deep pools of hazel, were now tinged with a bloody hue. His hand, burning with fevered heat, clamped onto Clara’s head, his voice a deep rumble laced with barely–contained emotion. “I’ll find out who did

going after Anders because of this. It’s over between us. Even if the truth comes out,

studied her with a profound intensity, his fingertips gently caressing Clara’s smooth cheek. “So that’s why you won’t explain things to me? You’re

down,

can play games with me?

got nothing to say. Excuse me.” She tried to wriggle free from

“Business isn’t over, Attorney Clara. You’re leaving just

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