She turned away from him, all her softened feeling changed to scorn.
"You shall listen to me," he whispered as he grasped her wrist and pulled her backward.

All the man's brutal passion had been aroused.
The fierce border blood boiled within his heart.

Unmasked he showed himself in his true colors a frontier desperado.

His eyes gleamed dark and lurid beneath his bent brows and a short, desperate laugh passed his lips.
"I will make you love me, my proud beauty.

I shall have you yet, one way or another." "Let me go.