No Escape From Them
I could feel the faint, warm brush of his lips against my skin, accompanied by the distinct scent of cedarwood, rain, and expensive tobacco—a scent that had haunted my nights.
"We missed you, princess," he murmured against my pulse point, his voice dripping with an agonizingly familiar, possessive fondness.
That single sentence shattered every ounce of denial I had left. The fragile illusion of safety I had spent the last two days building evaporated into thin air. It was them. The brothers. They had found me.
Panic, hot and blinding, surged through my paralysis. I needed to escape. I opened my mouth again, desperate to tear a scream from my lungs, determined to make enough noise to bring th