The Unshackled Queen: Never Say Never by Gilbert Soysal

“He couldn’t save you because Amelie had been threatening him with your life.

Amelie? She’s a master at playing nice in front of my father,” Hannah remarked.

“The Compton-Chadwich alliance only made the Chadwich family more daring.

You think he’d risk you for anything, just being my father’s right-hand man?”

Alessandra’s furious face froze.

“If he tried to get you out of Jade Paradise, Amelie would never let him off the hook.

He’s stuck with my father’s errands; he can’t watch over you all the time,” Hannah pointed out.

“Being with the Comptons won’t guarantee your safety.

And where else could he send you?”

Alessandra shook her head, looking bewildered.

“You’ve barely scratched the surface! You don’t know a thing!”

“Why do you reckon we’d be having this chat if you weren’t Winston’s sister?”

Hannah’s gaze met Alessandra’s, her lips tight.

“He reached out to me for help, remember? To save you.

Without being Winston’s sister, you think you’d have dodged that close call heading to the Blackeye? If you weren’t Winston’s sister, I’d have just let the Juarez family handle you however they pleased!”

glared at

It was me who tried to hurt you

think it’s

natural to fight for

dragged into the Blackeye against my will? No! I made the choice myself! I told Madam if I made it through, I’d ask for

crying about going to that

rescue me,

”

down her face, Alessandra lamented, “He never kept his word all these

I trust him

observed as Alessandra

to her knees, hiding her face and

in the wrong… I just want to survive! I’m

as she looked at

you ended up here, it means Amelie

one to save

come out at

“Heh.

”

streaking her cheeks, met

my

over to

you ever think about how your brother would

hung in

Hannah’s inquiry, Alessandra