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Rage shuddered through me, and my hands shook. I’d claw the eyeballs from the skull of anyone who looked at her that way. I’d slice off those suitors’ gods-damned cocks and feed them to the bastards before I let them get anywhere near her.
Mine…
My hands curled into fists. No. Not because she was mine. Because…
Just because, dammit.
The demon’s scorn for me was like acid coursing beneath my skin, and furiously, I fought to shove it back into its cage, not that the monster had the slightest intention of cooperating with that any longer. If anything, it wanted me in the damn cage. I was getting in the way. Stopping it from?—
From being a fool, gods-dammit.
I dug my fingers into my scalp, trying to focus past its rampaging and remember how to think like a man, not a monster. But the silence of this room grated on my ears, and these damned cushions were like a squishy grave, wrapping around me, trapping me here. And through it all, Gwyneira was all the way across the hall, alone, unprotected, a wanted fugitive in her own country and?—
Fuck it.
I shoved away from the couch. Moving quietly so as to avoid waking Niko, I crept across the room and opened the door.
The corridor was empty and still.
Like I’d trust that.
Snarling under my breath and glaring at the shadows, I stalked across the hall. I wouldn’t say much to her. I definitely wouldn’t answer questions. I’d just demand she keep the door cracked so that all of us—not just me, of course, because dammit, I wouldn’t let on I cared—all of us could hear if she was in trouble.
I lifted my fist to knock.
A muffled moan came from beyond the door.
I stopped, my hand hovering in midair just an inch shy of rapping on the wood. That hadn’t sounded like a noise of pain.
Wait…
Carefully, I leaned closer. My ear rested on the heavy wooden door.
Quiet grunts. Another moan. A short, rhythmic rocking sound.
I staggered back, blood rushing to my face and my cock in equal measure. Raking a hand through my hair, I floundered, my eyes darting around the hall.
That had to be my friends in there with her. Probably that vampire too. They’d decided not to leave her alone after all, even if it meant the risk of running afoul of damned Aneiran propriety.
And they were fucking her. All of them.
Shudders rocked me. My lips curled back, my bones aching. The demon wanted out. Needed out, because she was right the fuck there and whatever those men were doing, it wouldn’t be anything compared to what we could?—
Shadows stirred at the corner of my eye.
I reacted without thinking.
Lunging at the darkness, my hands sank into the shadows and landed on something that gave like flesh and fur, even if it actually had no form. I yanked the shadows toward me, my teeth bared. I’d tear this thing’s throat out. I’d feast on whatever the hell thought it could?—
The darkness melted from my grasp, flowing around my hands like water and rushing away from me. Twisting in midair several yards farther down the hall, the dark cloud transformed into Ruhl.
I lunged again. The wolf tensed like he was alarmed, but that only gave me an advantage. The creature shifted back into shadows, trying to evade, but I was ready.
My hands wrapped around the darkness and hauled it closer. My lips peeled back from my teeth again and rage flooded my veins. This soot-ridden mongrel had been watching us lust after our mate. Worse, it had interrupted us. If not for him, we would’ve gone in there and claimed the princess. The others had her ready, after all, and we wouldn’t have let them interfere. She would’ve been nice and relaxed to take our thick cock when we shifted and?—
What the fuck was I doing?
Horrified, I fell back from the wolf, collapsing onto my ass on the carpet.
