Fortune Mind
For ten years, I raised the finest bodyguard money could buy, and for a nanny's daughter, he turned his blade on me.
I didn't spare a thought for the years between us. I had his tendons cut, his skills stripped away, and I threw him out of Meridian City.
The live comments practically caught fire.
[Somebody help, Celeste Ward has gone too far! Julian protected her for ten years, and the one time he didn't put her first, she's going to ruin him?]
[This is the kind of love that terrifies me — if she can't have him, she'd rather destroy him. What did Julian even do wrong, trying to save the woman he loves?]
[Run, Julian! A viper like her doesn't deserve your loyalty. Go to Amber — she's the one who can actually save you!]
Me? Going too far?
A traitor who turns on his own mistress for an outsider — if anything, I went easy on him.
I gave a cold laugh, tore up his lifetime contract in front of everyone, and had every last one of his belongings burned.
Then I went straight to the underground fight club and picked out the meanest, most reckless guy I could find.
A month later, word reached Julian. He fought his way through every guard at my gate, half-dead by the time he made it to the door.
He dropped to his knees in front of me, eyes rimmed red, clutching the hem of my skirt. "Miss Ward," he said, "that mongrel covered in tattoos — what does he have that I don't?"