His bodyguards closed in behind him.
I refused to back down, and my own bodyguards formed circle after circle around me.
“Stacia,” he ground out, his voice cold enough to freeze blood. “I told you—don’t touch her again. You really think I wouldn’t dare lay a hand on you?”
He stopped five meters away, his teeth clenched so tightly that it looked like he might actually kill me.
“Do you even know what you’ve done? She can never be a mother anymore! How could you be this cruel?!”
At that, I actually laughed.
“Mr. Duffy, don’t talk nonsense. She got into an accident herself. What does that have to do with me? I’m a completely innocent businesswoman.”
I put extra emphasis on the words ‘completely innocent.’
He gave me a look full of disdain.
“You think I don’t know it was you? After all these years, you’re still the same—still fighting, still spilling blood. Whatever happened to the kind, soft-hearted woman you used to be?”
For a brief second, we both faltered at the memory.
But the past was the past.
What’s done is done.
“Cormac!”
Hillerin stumbled out of the car and threw herself into his arms.
“I want her dead! Cormac, I can’t be a mother anymore… You have to avenge our child!”