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~Sandra’s pov~Of all the people who could have walked into that club on the worst night of my life, it had to be fucking Ryan Hale!Not a stranger. Not some random person who wouldn't know my face from a magazine. No, it had to be the one man in the city who could destroy my reputation and dismantle everything I was trying to save with a single phone call, and he was standing right there in front of me with that arrogant, slow, cutting smile that had always made me feel like he could see straight through every wall I'd ever built around myself.Ryan Hale, was my husband's brother… step brother to be exact. He was notorious in every circle I'd ever heard his name mentioned in, for being exactly as dangerous, cunning, sadistic and whorish as he looked.And right now he looked very, amused and very very hungry… hungry for the juicy piece of meat he had just caught and was about to tear up.And in that moment, I had a very very sick realization, that I was that piece of meat, and he was

~Sandra’s pov~"Because your husband deserves worse," he said. "And only I can help you give it to him."I should have walked out the moment he smiled like that.Instead I stood there in the middle of that loud, dark club with my palm still stinging from the slap and my heart doing something unsteady in my chest, as I stared at Ryan Hale and tried to work out what angle he was playing.Because a cunning man like Ryan was always playing one. He didn't do anything without a reason. He didn't offer anything without wanting something back. That was the thing everyone who knew him understood instinctively.That underneath all that easy charm and that dangerous, half-amused calm was a person who was always, always calculating, and I had been Liam's wife long enough to know that whatever Ryan wanted from this situation, it was not simply to be helpful to me."What do you actually want?" I asked him."I told you. I want to help you.""People like you don't just help people like me. You don’t