Tyler
She lay there in the hospital bed once more, and still couldn’t issue a rejection. She could feel the weight of Franco’s orders were still on her as she tried to detect them. Lauchlan knew she couldn’t issue a rejection now, that she was bound to his father’s order not to, and yet he still hadn’t had those orders removed from her.
Not even after he had stood there and watched her struggle and fight against the one to get her sister's name out, right before him. Fought it until her last dying breath, and literally killed herself in order to speak it in front of him. Yet still she was bound to those orders. David was right; Lauchlan was going to use that order on her, to keep her here with him.
She looked at her mother, who was sitting there in a chair next to her bed, looking very
