“Yes.” Elara was almost within reach. “Kate was angry. The last one was her friend. She watched me kill him.” “Why would you do that in front of her?” “He didn’t give me a choice. It was a hard kill. Roland wanted his daughter. Nothing mattered except getting her to him. Nothing else existed.” Hugh struggled to explain the relentless pressure and the finality in Roland’s eyes when he had given the order. He’d gone into it with a kind of grim determination that now seemed desperate. He couldn’t find the words.
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