Hostile Territory

Third-Person POV

Daphne’s gaze moved across the room, her heartbeat quickening as she took in the faces surrounding them. Dominic’s family was all present—his father, Gideon, sitting with a glass of whiskey in hand, his mother, Beatrice, perched elegantly on the grand loveseat, his sisters, Nadine and Jocelyn, both watching with unreadable expressions. And then there were his uncles, Tobias and Ma