Inherited Fears

Sloane had no warning. One moment she was simply breathing, and the next Killian swept her close, pressing her face into the hard plane of his chest.

His arms wrapped around her with bruising strength, yet they quivered as though some invisible fear rattled his bones.

The desperate hold flung her back to that windswept night on the coast when Dorian had challenged them. Killian had clung the very