Bitter Heat

She watched turbulent emotions play over his face and saw the flash of impatience before his fingers tightened around her throat.

No, he didn’t bribe me,” she said through clenched teeth.
“Then why?”
“I don’t want to talk about this!

That was before he learned of their affair. She thought she was going against the grain by marrying a man who hadn’t been born in her circles, but she was wrong. Roth was every bit as ruthless as her father