CHAPTER 119

“I told him that he couldn’t give me the things another man had promised me,” she whispered.

Ash’s hold tightened further. “Go on.”

“He freaked. I mean completely lost it. The words were barely out of my mouth when he slapped me. I was so shocked that I didn’t even know what to do. And then he was standing over me, where I’d fallen, and he hit me again. He wrapped his hands in my hair and accused me of cheating on him. Told me that he’d handled me far too gently. That if he’d been the way he should have with me this would have never happened, that I would have never cheated.”

“Son of a bitch,” Ash ground out. “I’ll kill him for this.”

She shook her head violently. “No! Ash, leave it alone. It’s done with. It’s over.”

“The hell it is!”

He calmed his breathing and forced the rage from his mind and eased his grip on her arm where his fingers had dug into her skin. She would wear no marks from him. None that weren’t given in passion and tenderness. None that she wouldn’t want to wear.

“I