Chapter 230

GIDEON

For a heartbeat, I couldn’t move.

She was shaking in my arms—my Sienna, my firestorm, my impossible woman—and yet the moment her body collapsed against mine, something primal surged through me. Not anger. Not confusion. Just the instinctive, bone-deep need to keep her standing.

I tightened my hold.

“Sienna—hey—sweetheart, I’ve got you.”

But the second my hands settled on her, she jerke