Chapter 124 Hundred And Twenty Four

• RYAN’S POV
• I was pacing again. Pacing like a fucking animal in a cage, dragging my fingers through my hair so hard it felt like I’d rip the strands out by the roots. My jaw ached from clenching it too long. My bones buzzed. My chest burned. I hated this. I hated that I wasn’t with her right now, that I wasn’t the one holding her, wasn’t the one shielding her from the shit this world kept throwing at her. It was supposed to be done. She was supposed to be mine, safe, untouchable. But it seemed like peace was a luxury no one was ever going to let her have. It was like every time I blinked someone new was scheming. And I had enough. I was fucking done watching them come for her like she wasn’t mine to bleed for.
• Then the doors slammed open. My guards came in dragging Maya like a bag of trash, the same way the doctor had been dragged earlier except she didn’t look broken yet. She didn’t even have a scratch on her, her stupid little outfit still perfect, her hair still neatly styled, like she hadn’t just tried to ruin a woman’s life. My woman’s life.