Nash, of course, immediately approved the leave.

What neither he nor anyone else knew was that Ben harbored an unrequited love, someone he adored in his youth but came to despise over the years.

"Ben, not here... please..."

Jamie Lewis's voice quivered in pleading as he held her tightly against the narrow vanity. She was trapped, nowhere to escape under his unyielding hold. Her protests did nothing to sway him.

His gaze only hardened with a cold fury. "Now you know how to beg?" he sneered. "Where was your mercy when I was the one pleading?"

Jamie swallowed hard, her throat constricting painfully as she forced the words, "Ben, I know I wronged you back then. But Winnie is innocent. She's out there right now."

greeting the guests in her wedding dress, Jamie was trapped here, humiliated by Winnie's own fiancé. Terror and a crushing guilt overwhelmed her, leaving her

she was scared. Winnie was her biological sister. Jamie tried to fight back, but Ben kept her pinned, forcing

"Is my death the only thing that will satisfy your hatred, Ben?" she asked, the pain in

had broken his heart, and he hated her with every fiber

in a cold smile. "That's far too easy, Jamie. I want

a knock at

are you in there?" Winnie's voice

leap to her

make a sound, hoping Winnie. wouldn't realize she was

plans. With a look of twisted satisfaction, he grabbed Jamie, pulling her toward the door Jamie realized

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