Chapter 5
Chloe stared up at the tattooed enforcer in bewildered astonishment, realizing the stranger who had just saved her life was intimately connected to her own forgotten past.
"You know who my family is?" Chloe asked breathlessly, her tears temporarily drying as hope flickered in her dark eyes.
"I have spent the last decade hunting down every single person who participated in the human trafficking ring operating out of this county," Jaxson answered quietly.
"And your mother was the primary witness who tried to expose my family's illegal adoption syndicate before she was silenced."
Victoria lunged forward with sudden, desperate fury, attempting to rip the locket off Chloe's neck before she could reveal anything else.
"Shut your mouth, you insolent rat!" Victoria shrieked, her fingernails clawing viciously toward the maid's bruised face.
With blinding speed, Jaxson intercepted Victoria's wrist mid-air, squeezing her arm with enough pressure to force a sharp cry of pain from her lips.
"Never lay a hand on her again," Jaxson warned, his dark eyes burning with an intense, unyielding fury.
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He shoved Victoria backward onto the marble floor, her crimson velvet dress sprawling out around her like a pool of fresh blood.
The heavy mahogany front doors of the mansion suddenly rattled violently as the brass knocker struck three heavy, echoing blows.
