Chapter 19

When the bodyguard's fist slammed into Georgia, she let out a shriek. "Ah! No, please!" At first, she cursed both Cheyenne and Nolan. But as the blows kept coming, her voice shifted from rage to begging. "Shut up!" The bodyguard snarled, kicking her hard in the stomach. She doubled over in pain. The crack of breaking ribs made her vision blur. Blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, and her once-pretty face was so swollen it was barely recognizable. Nolan watched with cold detachment, and there was not a flicker of emotion in his eyes. Seeing her like this stirred no sympathy in him. All he could see was Cheyenne's pale face the day she lost their child, the way she collapsed outside the courthouse, the fear in her eyes when she hid behind Evan. Her pain then had been a thousand times worse than this. He wanted to make Georgia answer for each wound she'd caused, one by one. "Nolan, I was wrong… Please, I'm begging you, let me go…" Beaten and covered in blood, Georgia finall