That night I had a restless sleep. My brother plagued my dreams, his sneer and clear discontent for me, blazed in his eyes, the look of a demon staring back at me.

I stood frozen in front of the sink, re-reading the note pinned to the window over and over, my heart was pounding behind my rib cage and felt like it would explode out at any second.

I pad down the hall in my nightgown and bare feet, the deep crimson carpet feels soft beneath my feet almost like walking on a cloud.&n

I looked back at Jewel's as she stared back down at me, it took me a moment to think of what to say back, that poor woman had been ripped away from her mates and forced into a relationship with a man that didn’t care for her he abused her at every opportunity he could because she would not choose him over her mates. “What happened with Tammy’s father? Why did he hand her over to Kristian?” “Kristian paid her father for her, his business was failing and he needed an influx of money to keep it going, but he had nothing to sell no assets, no jewellery nothing so he bargained the only thing he had, Tammy” My mind was running a hundred miles an hour, I couldn’t understand how a parent could do that to their own child. “Did he know what Kristian was like?” She nodded her head in reply. “Kristian had a reputation around women and his name got around, people knew he was brutal with women a few of the working girls were ruffed up by him and ref

I ran towards the twins and the unmoving body lying in the road, and threw myself down on my knees as I skidded to a stop next to the body laying there. I looked down and my heart nearly stopped when I saw his face covered in multiple bruises, his eye swollen shut and his lip was busted too, I reached out carefully and laid my hand on his chest, searching out his heartbeat, my hand skimmed across his chest until I felt the dull thump-thump of his heart.