Chapter 493:

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Nearby, Carole froze, her face a picture of shock. She couldn’t comprehend how, in the heartbeat it took Gordon to swing, Kellan had whisked Allison away without so much as a blur.

Outside, the crisp night air hit Allison’s face, her heart pounding with the shock of it all.

Her mind raced, piecing together everything she’d seen. How even…? Her stomach twisted with unease.

She was beginning to see the man before her in a new, darker light, one that raised more questions than answers. Kellan’s movements were impossibly quick — practiced, efficient, instinctive. It must be the precision of someone who’d spent years honing skills for survival. She didn’t want to read too much into it though. Otherwise…

The wind whistled in her ears as she was half-dragged down the empty street, the rapid pace giving her no time to protest.

broad back, the fabric of his shirt stretching over taut, coiled muscles, every line of him tense and

scalding in its

reached a deserted alley, and Kellan stopped, finally loosening his grip but

catch up. She raised her gaze and was met with his eyes — a searing, intense red beneath a mask of calm that was anything but. A sharp,

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shoulders hit it, pressed

when I saw the two of you, cozy in that café today, talking like I wasn’t a thousand miles closer than he’ll ever be. I thought of a thousand ways to make sure he’d never cross your

fear, but from the terrifying certainty that he could follow through on

her tone as firm as she could make it. “My choices are

them were better left standing. Keeping

eyes burning with

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