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My husband locked me inside his estate two months after our wedding. He controlled the gates. The guards. Every road leading out. So I did what any trapped wife would do. I ran. That was the first time I saw Cassian afraid. Not angry. Afraid. He caught me at the edge of the woods, his hand closing around my wrist. "Go back to the house." I looked him in the eye. "Or what?" For one second, something in his face changed. Then a howl rose from the darkness behind me. Cassian went completely still. And whispered-"Don't bleed."