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."

of her younger sister, Winnie Lewis. While Winnie stood outside, joyfully 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 paralyzed and trembling. Ben was only more amused. "Scared,

Ben kept her pinned, forcing her into degrading poses in front of the

the only thing that will satisfy your hatred, Ben?" she asked, the pain

his heart, and he hated her with every fiber of

lips curling in a cold smile. "That's far too easy, Jamie.

a knock at the

are you in there?"

Jamie's hear leap to her throat; she froze, feeling like she

make a sound, hoping

toward the door Jamie realized with

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