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.

his heel.

propped up in bed, her

an," she

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sweet with

her side in an instant, fingers brushing hers

them, and smirked. "Should I leave?

"Ms. Briggs, it's not what you think! We're

his hand," Freya interrupted, "and that

distance to the bed,

eyes wide with

understood. This

Ashley's fingers tightened around his, her lower lip

rolled her eyes. The act was

explode-to play the jealous wife and give Kristian another

as fear. His voice softened, a rarity. "It's okay.

laugh was brittle. "Kristian,

his affair in her

to

from the bed. "How long

How had she even noticed

tone was lethally calm. "Record your boss cozying

see how Shaw

never intended to be pulled

recoiling from Kristian as if

voice was winter itself. He didn't look at Freya, his hand

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

room plunged into

her phone into her purse.

face hardened

noted absently. Even fury couldn't dull the sharp lines of his jaw-the man

attractive.

me?" His voice was dangerously

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