Chapter 118 Chapter

Please, Megan. Please don't make this difficult for me. You do know and you are going to tell me." As if to accentuate his words, his grip tightened and my roots screamed. "I'm a threat to their plans," I burst out. Brandon's eyes narrowed. "You? But you're just my wife. What kind of threat could you possibly be to them?" The rage bubbled up inside me. The first real spark of something that felt familiar, something that reminded me of who I was - who I really was. I glared defiantly back at him. "They want me because I'm the only one who can stop them. If they get me, then they will kill me just as they are going to kill Lucius and then all your efforts to get back what you had will be wasted. All this trouble you have gone to in order to show them all that you are untouchable will mean nothing." And there it was. A barely-there flicker of panic that crinkled his brow ever so slightly, a momentary widening of his dark eyes, the way his lips parted releasing the tiniest exhale of breath