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Left to watch the one woman I love be torn away from me

“Harper!” I growl as the guard grabs ether on my back so he can put new cuffs on

“Marcello!” Harper screao!”

But the guy ht out of the rooh she’s an easy victim And when the door slams shut, my heart shatters into a million little pieces

Her cries go through marrow and bone

“LET HER FUCKING GO!” I roar, rage filling me up like a volcano that’s about to burst

“You wish,” the guard quips, laughing like he’s enjoying my misery as he chains bothme in place

“I’ll do anything Trade places Her life for ood side in his soul if he even has any

But the click-clacking of heels distracts uard

“Well, well … if it isn’t Marcello begging on his deathbed I’lad I was able to witness that before your life is over,” Molly muses as she steps into the doorway

“Takeher obvious taunts

She merely smirks “You think I want her life?” Her brow rises “Marcello …” She walks toward ers into my skin “All I want … is for you to feel the same despair I felt when you two hurt my husband”

The last word comes out in a hiss as she throws ain

“So you’re just going to torture her like you did me? What kind of mother are you?” I say

The guard leaves first, holding open the door for her

She throws lance over her shoulder “Haven’t you heard? I’m not her mother”

Her stone-cold eyes make mine widen as I realize what she is about to do

“And I think you can guess who is going to pay for that,” she muses

“No Don’t touch her Don’t!” I yell, but she sla but my own fury to rot in

I roar out loud again and again, but no one coh I want thehting theet out