Trent frowned as he looked down at the top of Kara's head.
Rejected. How in the hell could this one girl be so unlucky? First, she had been unfortunate enough to be taken in by his mother under highly suspect circumstances and then forced into a life akin to slavery. It had taken years to ferret out enough of the truth to know his mother had manipulated things to be sure she had Kara in her grasp. In that time, he had watched her suffer the slings and arrows his family dealt out with barely the batting of an eyelash.
Guilt rode him hard. He should have stepped in more, tried to take the focus off of Kara, but in the end, he had remained silent in order to keep his own secrets hidden. Now, she was lying here, half-dead and unknown to the world. Before she had barely been hanging on to h
