"Over others, no."
"But over you?"
Wolf suddenly grasped her.
The girl shrank back in terror for an instant, and then, to his surprise, her hand was still and cold and steady. Not a tremor in the tense body. Her brown eyes, staring wide, held his gaze without a sign of weakness or of fear. Something in her attitude startled the beast within him. He suddenly dropped her hand and changed his tone.
"Come, let's not quarrel! Don't be foolish. It is for you I've been scheming and planning the past year. For you the regent's palace was planned. Within five years a hundred thousand people will be here. The State will be rich beyond our wildest dreams, and I shall be the State. I want you to sit by my side."
Wolf Grasped Her.[ToList]
"You say this to me after all that Catherine has been to you and your life?"
"And why not? If I no longer love, should I be chained?"