Empire of Dominance
But to have lived like this, to have felt alone, for the last ten years as he helmed his empire, drinking a vanishing vintage of wine and eating caviar off a gold bar and feeling alone all the time… It was an incredibly depressing thought.
“Miss Cannon,” he said suddenly, and she realized his mind had been in an entirely different place. “Raven. I can promise you, on my word, you will be safe with me. Tell me what is happening, and I will make sure nothing like that ever happens to you again.”
Now she could see what he had been fighting so hard not to show: it was softness. Something not quite fear and not quite loss but… Was that tenderness? Genuine tenderness?
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