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 face

an," she

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sweet with

was at her side in an

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

"Ms. Briggs, it's not

of his hand," Freya interrupted,

the distance to the bed, studying Ashley properly for the first

frame, eyes wide

she understood. This was

tightened around his, her lower lip

eyes. The

explode-to play the jealous wife and give Kristian another reason

voice softened, a

laugh was brittle.

Flaunting his affair in her face-did he think she'd

ignored her, murmuring something to Ashley that

turning from the bed. "How

had she even

your phone out." Her tone was lethally calm. "Record your boss

mistress. Let's see how Shaw Group's shareholders

paled. He never intended to be

from

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

the video recorder, and smiled. "Funny. I thought you brought me here to witness

plunged into

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

face hardened into

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

attractive.

His

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