Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Are You Threatening Me

Gerard stepped forward swiftly to take the keys, assuming the role of driver without hesitation."

Freya yanked the passenger door open and slid inside, her gaze fixed straight ahead-ignoring Kristian entirely.

A knot of dread tightened in Gerard's chest. What if Freya said something outrageous? The thought made his fingers clench around the wheel.

After a weighted pause, he ventured, "Mrs. Shaw, you-"

"Drive." Her reply was a blade, sharp and final.

Gerard flicked a glance at the rearview mirror. Kristian's expression gave nothing away. Swallowing hard, he

pulled out of the parking area.

Silence smothered the car like a thick fog.

The tension was unbearable. Gerard's shoulders tensed, his grip on the steering wheel turning his knuckles

white.

Neither Kristian nor Freya spoke. Both radiated a frost so deep it could've cracked the windows.

Gerard knew Kristian's moods well-but Freya? She'd been almost cheerful earlier. What the hell happened?

He bit back a sigh. Questions wouldn't help now.

In the back seat, Kristian's gaze drifted unbidden to Freya's profile. Something unfamiliar twisted in his chest

-an emotion he refused to name.

Thirty minutes later, the car halted at the hospital entrance.

Kristian seized Freya's wrist, dragging her toward the VIP ward. His grip was iron, unyielding.

She winced, her voice dripping with mockery. "At this rate, I won't be the one charged-you'll be arrested for

assault first."

He dropped her arm like it burned him. Angry red marks circled her skin.

Freya shot him a look so scathing it could've melted steel.

Guilt flickered in Kristian's chest-brief, unwelcome. It vanished the moment Ashley's bruised face flashed in

his mind.

turning on his heel. He

bed, her face lighting up at the sight of

an," she

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sweet

an instant, fingers brushing hers in silent

one look at them, and smirked. "Should I leave?

Briggs, it's not what

his hand," Freya interrupted,

the bed, studying Ashley properly

frame, eyes wide with

This was the woman

Ashley's fingers tightened around

eyes. The act was

wanted her, to explode-to play the jealous wife and

fear. His voice softened, a rarity.

laugh was brittle.

audacity. Flaunting his affair in her

murmuring something to Ashley that

not turning from the bed. "How

stiffened. How had

phone out." Her tone was lethally

see how Shaw Group's shareholders enjoy the

never intended

recoiling from Kristian as if

look at Freya, his

video recorder, and smiled. "Funny. I thought you brought me

plunged

video with a deliberate tap, then slid her phone into her purse. "What do you think your mother would do if she

hardened

noted absently. Even fury couldn't dull the sharp

attractive.

me?" His voice

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