When I entered that ruined room and saw my little sister hanging from the ceiling, bruised and gagged, something inside me went cold. Her husband smirked. “She belongs to me.” I slowly removed my gloves and looked at the men behind me. “No,” I said. “She’s my blood.” By sunrise, his empire was ashes, his allies had vanished, and he was begging at my feet for mercy.
When I entered the ruined room and saw my younger sister suspended from a ceiling beam, bruised and gagged, something inside me went cold. Her husband stood beneath her with a drink in his hand and smiled as if he had been expecting applause. “She belongs to me,” Victor Hale said. My sister, Emily, was…