Chapter 25: You Can't Handle This

The moment anyone noticed Gabriel, he had already drawn Madison into the shelter of his arm.  A man's body flew through the air and crashed to the floor with a bone-jarring thud.  Gasps rippled through the room. "Does it hurt?" Gabriel studied Madison's swollen cheek, his eyes soft with a tenderness that felt almost scandalous in a place like this. "It doesn't." Madison gave the smallest shake of her head. Warmth, unfamiliar and startling, bloomed in her chest. The quarrels she'd had with...