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Caleb started at the sound of the voice and I extricated myself from him, then turned to see Jonah sauntering into the room. He was just in his boxers, sweat dripping down his brow, his chest. He’d been pounding out his frustrations on the heavy bag again.
“I’ll hold back,” I answered simply.
“I don’t want that, Asher.”
“Too bad.”
He strode up to me, getting in my space.
When I didn’t react or move to touch him in the affectionate way I had been before I’d entered into this state, I saw his face fall.
I registered the dejection and upset, but I couldn’t do more than that, couldn’t respond to it the way he needed. Not while I was like this.
“I want you raw,” he told me.
“Not like this.”
He blew out a breath, his frustration plain as the harsh light of day. “I get that you’re shutdown now, but if that’s the way you can express something—sexually and hardcore—I’m here for it. I’ll take whatever you can give until you’re out of this mentality and back to yourself.” He took a step back. “Although, that being said, we’re gonna have to give it time first. You’re still injured and I also don’t think you’re ready yet to go to a sexual—”
I cut off his worry and reference to that as I held up my hand. “End of discussion.”
As he moved to protest, I told him, “Our plan worked. Lance is bringing Aurora here.”
He jolted. “What? Seriously?”
I nodded. “He just contacted me. She’ll be back with us in seventy-two hours and he also wants to work with us to end this shitshow.”
“Holy shit,” he breathed. “Princess is coming. Fuck, yes.”
Caleb rose to his feet and walked to us. “Work with Revenant? Are you going to be able to do that?”
“He’s an asset.”
“But after what he did to you, setting you up the way he did, isn’t that going to be a little hard to overlook?”
“A major fucking understatement there,” Jonah growled, vehemently.
“The mission is what matters.”
They eyed one another worriedly at my response.
“Asher—” Jonah started.
“I need to inform Killian and Aaron.”
With that, I strode from the room and fired off the necessary texts.
My warning to Caleb played on my mind.
“If I come at you fully unleashed, no holding back, like you want, I’ll decimate you.”
He really hadn’t even seen the beast in me raging free in all its glory.
And he never would.
He was a part of my inner circle, the only ones immune to its wrath.
But Lance “Revenant” Carlyle didn’t fall into the same category.
