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.

heel. He didn't wait to see

in bed, her face lighting up at the sight

an," she

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sweet

at her side in an

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

"Ms. Briggs, it's not what you

interrupted, "and

the bed, studying Ashley properly for the

eyes wide

This was the

tightened around his,

eyes. The act

wife and give Kristian another

misinterpreted Ashley's grip as fear. His voice softened, a rarity.

brittle. "Kristian,

in her face-did he think

murmuring something to Ashley that made her

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

stiffened. How had she even

phone out." Her tone was lethally

Let's see how Shaw Group's

paled. He never intended to be pulled into

recoiling from Kristian as

Kristian's voice was winter itself. He didn't look at Freya, his hand still resting on Ashley's back. "You're here to

the video recorder, and smiled. "Funny. I thought you

room plunged

the video with a deliberate tap, then slid her phone into her

hardened into

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

attractive.

threatening me?" His voice was

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