Chapter Forty-Two

I didn’t want to leave the bed. I wanted to stay where we were and spend the whole night proving to Liam just how important he was to me, but we had other matters to attend to. Besides, he’s smiling and acting like himself again.

“Chase is fetching Madeline for us. He’s going to take her to the sitting room.”

We are both worried about the young woman under our care. She looks sickly and her visible skin is made up of mostly bruises and scars.

“I feel for her. She has been beaten badly. I can almost guarantee that those bruises on her arms extend to the rest of her body.”

His mouth was set in a straight line. Liam was very passionate about men who beat on women. It took him a long time to feel comfortable enough to train with me without holding back.

“It’s just one more thing to make him pay for when we catch him,” he stated as we entered the sitting room.

Madeline sat perched on the