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."

humiliated by Winnie's own fiancé. Terror and a crushing guilt overwhelmed her, leaving her

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

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

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

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

was a knock at

there?" Winnie's

leap to her throat; she froze,

ice. She didn't dare make a

a look of twisted satisfaction, he grabbed Jamie, pulling her toward the

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