Emilie stared up at Ambrose, as what he had told her reverberated in her mind. She hadn't really taken it all in where on earth could he have come from to have lived like that?

He ran his hand through his thick black hair in an angry gesture. "God knows why I blurted it out to you. I wonder if you realize I've given you a weapon that could destroy me."

Love can conquer the deadliest of Sins.