Chapter 124

Garrick Rookwood's gaze was laced with primal dominance as it pinned Wren Thorne to the wall.

His eyes-cold, calculated, and merciless-burned into her like she was not a person, but territory. Something he had marked once, and now had returned to reclaim.

"You've bullied Daphne before," he said lowly, each word like ice splintering into her skin. "Don't act innocent in front of me, Wren. I know ex