Ruthless Devotion

"Ah!" Sloane yelped as the phone slipped from her palm and clattered onto the hardwood.

She leaned to retrieve it, hindered by the plaster cast that immobilized her right calf.

Before she could so much as bend her knees, another hand—swift, pale, impossibly sure—swept in and lifted the phone from the floor.

For a fleeting heartbeat, the glowing screen flashed across a pair of sharp, fox-bright eye