Forced to Yield

CADE

For a second, I can't breathe. My mind goes blank, then floods with too many thoughts at once. Hazel. My Sparrow. The girl carrying my child. She was never even safe. Her own mother put her up as collateral like she was nothing more than property.

Rage paints my vision red. So I lunge.

My hands shoot out and grab Darius by the front of his expensive shirt, yanking him forward. The wom