"Let her go!" Sam growled icily, slowly and clearly.
Ryan met his gaze with equal fury, and a fight looked like it could start at a moment.
"Let me go," Quinn was shaking hard against Ryan's grip, but he only grabbed her even harder.
"It hurts!" she could not help crying out right then.
Sam glowered and clenched on Ryan's hand in turn. "I told you to let her go!"
It was certainly hurting Ryan, but he refused to give in—the harder Sam clenched on his arm, the harder he clenched on Quinn.
Even as Quinn was left on the verge of tears, he snapped coldly, "Let go! This is between me and Quinn—you don't have the right to interfere!"
"Really?!" Sam laughed coldly. "Did you forget that Quinn and I married, while you're nothing to her?! Are you trying to steal my wife now?! Don't you understand the shameless words you just said?!"
"What…!" Ryan was left stumped by Sam's comeback—he never considered Sam a threat just because Quinn used to like him, let alone consider Sam and Quinn's marriage a real one!
But now, he ended up being humiliated like this?!
"Quinn loves me!" Ryan screamed, his embarrassment devolving into fury.
As he bristled, Quinn was in too much pain to argue.
It was Sam who snapped, "It doesn't matter who she loves—she's my wife now, and I'll never allow her to be taken away or hurt! I'm counting to three, and you're getting it if you don't let her go!"
"One."
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