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.

on his heel. He didn't wait to see if

lay propped up in bed,

an," she

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sweet with

side in an instant, fingers

one look at them, and smirked. "Should I leave? Give you two some

"Ms. Briggs, it's not what

hand," Freya interrupted, "and that lie might

to the bed, studying

delicate frame, eyes

Now she understood. This was the woman Kristian

Ashley's fingers tightened around his, her lower lip

her eyes. The

wife and give Kristian another reason to despise

Ashley's grip as fear. His voice softened,

laugh was brittle.

audacity. Flaunting his affair in her face-did

ignored her, murmuring something to Ashley that made

snapped. "Gerard," she called, not turning from the bed. "How

had she even noticed

phone out." Her tone was lethally

how Shaw Group's shareholders

never intended to be pulled

gasped, recoiling from Kristian

Freya, his hand still resting

smiled. "Funny. I thought you brought me here to witness your cheating in

plunged into

tap, then slid her phone into her purse.

face hardened

dull the sharp lines of his jaw-the man was

attractive.

you threatening me?" His

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