RONAN
Kade was not going down without a fight. Even pinned, even with my knee in his back and his knife knocked out of reach, he fought. Thrashing, twisting, using the wall as leverage to push back against me. I was weak. Every muscle in my body was running on the last drops of whatever fuel I had left after hours on that floor. But I held him. Barely. My arms shook with the effort of keeping him down, my vision graying slightly at the edges from blood loss.
He was strong. Stronger than me right now. I knew that.
So I didn't try to win with strength.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Kade's voice came out muffled against the floor, fury vibrating through every word. He managed to turn his head enough to look at me sideways, his dark eyes blazing. "You wriggled out of some ropes. Goo
