Chapter 17 I Hope You Do Not Regret This

Taylor didn't hesitate. With a sharp wave of his hand, two men in black suits stepped forward and seized Nancy by the arms, dragging her to the center of the living room. The moment her gaze met Sebastian's, his eyes cold as steel, whatever fragile hope she'd been clinging to was shattered instantly. She forced herself into composure. "Listen to me—" Her words were cut off by his icy voice. Sebastian rose slowly from the couch. His tall frame, well over six feet, radiated a suffocating pressure as he advanced toward her one deliberate step at a time. "All this, for the master you serve. You really would do anything." He stopped directly before her, looking down with a mocking curl to his lips. "Too bad. You miscalculated. "That document was a decoy from the very beginning, laid out for the sole purpose of luring the snake from its den." Nancy froze at his words. So his collapse had been nothing but an act, a trap designed to test her. From beginning to end, he had staged eve