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."

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

fight back, but Ben kept her pinned, forcing her

face went pale. "Is my death the only thing that will satisfy your hatred,

his heart, and he hated her

smile. "That's far

was a knock

you in there?" Winnie's voice sounded from

Jamie's hear leap to her throat;

She didn't dare make a sound, hoping Winnie. wouldn't realize

the door Jamie realized with horror that.

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