Tempting the Wrong Prince
Her voice rose with every word until it became a shrill, trembling note of rage.
I wanted to turn away, to walk out, to pretend I wasn’t there, but my legs wouldn’t move.
Richard’s jaw tightened; he growled, low and animal, a sound I’d never heard from him before.
“Enough,” he repeated, but this time the word trembled, not from weakness, but from the weight of emotion pressing against it.
I couldn’t breathe. Watching them like that, mother and son tearing into each other, felt like standing at the edge of something catastrophic.