Chapter 173 Like It Never Happened

• Holly stood on the deck, her face turned to the waning sunlight as she took several deep breaths in a half-baked attempt to calm her racing heart.
• "What the hell was that?" she whispered to herself, when her pulse finally returned to normal and her legs stopped shaking.
• A part of her was tempted to quickly glance inside, at Andrei and his father, just to make sure she hadn't dreamed up any of the madness. But another part—the one that still shivered with terror at the thought of finding Nikolai gazing back at her with the same loathing he'd shown her earlier—decided against it.