The Price of Defiance

Those sea-green eyes were full of pain and fear. For a second he just drowned in those beautiful eyes but his anger was deadly. She shouldn't have slapped him. No one has ever dared to touch him. His father never raised his hand on him but this stupid girl slapped his pride.

"You think I'd let it slide? You shouldn't have slapped me, Nyla," The deadly coldness of his tone had her trembling.

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