Chapter 929

Chapter 929

At a moment like this, Sharon still wanted to keep her promise.

Jamie, for those he cared about, kept promises like oaths bound in gold. For his enemies, however, a promise was merely another way to toy with them.

He raised an eyebrow, visibly surprised by Sharon’s willingness to act. After a few seconds of theatrical thought, he said, “But if you don’t do it yourself, won’t it look like we’re bullying a frail woman? If you later cry foul, it could complicate things for us.”

Though his words pretended concern, his face betrayed no fear. Sharon understood: forcing her to act was never his only option.

bloodless, moved faintly. “Then what do you

rule: when I break a finger, if you make a sound, I’ll arrange a man for one of your friends. One cry, one man.

A cry could ease suffering. It was a reflex that let the nerves share

burden.

difference between torture and murder. Tenfold pain in ten connected fingertips was far

With her hand ruined, she likely won’t play the violin again. She’s been missing for hours-search parties are frantic

hands, Julliard and his men

ideas for torment now seemed petty beside Jamie’s methods.


that even he wouldn’t have conceived such a scheme. If he had acted, the worst he could have thought of was to ruin her hand. Jamie not only ruined the hand-he made her do it. Destroying her hand, her mother’s cherished violin, and

Wendy’s sudden, ferocious cry, “Jamie, you shameless, vile coward! You

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