Ellis
I wasn’t counting on my mate stabbing me in the goddamn chest. It hurt like a mother-f.ucker, and the burning pain alone almost dropped me, but somehow, the b.itch managed to slide the damn knife between my ribs without hitting my heart. Pretty sure she punctured my damn lung, though. But she’d stupidly forgotten that we were now a marked pair, and she was on her knees too, crying and gasping for breath.
I’d been willing to make her my queen, but after this betrayal, I’d keep her on her damn knees for the rest of her life, however long that might be. Cecelia was gathering her in her arms, and it was so damn easy to level the pistol at both of them. I hesitated just a moment, wondering if I could place the shot so perfectly that it would pass through Cecelia and take out Catherine a
