Chapter 8 - The Desperate Escape
Seeing the absolute, uncompromising murder completely taking over Ethan's eyes, Corinne knew that talking was utterly useless. If she didn't get out of the mansion in the next ten seconds, she was going to die on the expensive oak floor.
With a sudden, explosive burst of pure adrenaline, Corinne lunged to her right. She wasn't running toward the front door; Ethan was blocking the entryway. Instead, she scrambled frantically toward the heavy decorative marble fireplace, her hands desperately reaching for the heavy iron fire poker resting on the hearth.
"Don't you move!" Ethan roared, his terrifying voice completely shaking the walls.
But Corinne’s fingers closed around the heavy iron weapon. She spun around wildly, swinging the solid metal poker aggressively toward Ethan’s head to shatter his skull and make her escape.
Ethan possessed the incredibly sharp, lethal reflexes of a man who would do absolutely anything to protect his bloodline. He flawlessly ducked under the heavy, desperate swing. The iron poker violently smashed into a framed family photo on the wall, completely shattering the glass.
Before Corinne could recoil and swing again, Ethan’s powerful arm shot forward. He drove his heavy shoulder directly into her chest, slamming her violently against the stone fireplace. The breath exploded from her lungs in a pathetic, agonized gasp. The iron poker clattered uselessly onto the floor.
Ethan violently pinned her against the stone, his strong forearm pressing aggressively against her collarbone, holding her completely, terrifyingly immobile.
"Where is she?" Ethan snarled, his face mere inches from her terrified, weeping eyes. "Where is Blackwood?"
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"If I tell you, you'll kill me!" Corinne gasped, choking back her own blood, completely refusing to surrender her absolute final piece of leverage.
👉 How will Ethan force the location out of the sociopathic woman who stole his wife?
