"Do you have any idea what could have just happened to you in here?" Alessandro’s voice wasn't a roar anymore, it was a scary lethal vibration that rattled me to my very bones.

His hand tightened on my throat not quite enough to choke me, but enough to force my head back and make me look into the furnace of his eyes. The terror that had begun to fade the moment I had seen him enter the library, came rushing back, twice as sharp. This wasn't the "playful" Alessandro from the rainy nights. No, ...