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As I thought it, Uma and Kinley stepped out of the building. She wore leggings and a loose top that flowed around her body and accentuated her curves. Her dark hair was pulled up into a ponytail so that her eyes seemed bright, fiercer.
“Let’s go,” I said.
“Where are we going?” she asked.
“Home,” I said.
“Where you’ll own me.”
I nodded. “That’s how it works, sweetheart. You’re mine now.”
“I don’t belong to anyone.” She glared at me.
Fuck, she was even hotter when she was angry. Her feistiness was a turn-on, and my cock hardened in my pants. I wanted her on her knees in front of me, her lips wrapped around my cock. I wanted her on all fours; that perfect round ass pointed at me so I could fuck her.
I wanted a lot of things from her, and she belonged to me, so technically, I could have it all. That wasn’t why I’d bought her, though. I would never harm her, even if she technically belonged to me. Other males out there, fucked up males, would do what they wanted.
I wasn’t one of those men. I’d seen the way Cal had talked about the shifter auction, like it was a buffet, like they were all there to satiate needs, but I wasn’t going to allow that.
The moment I’d heard about the rabbit shifter, I’d decided she would be mine. Fuck knows what someone else would have done with her—she would never have been safe in another shifter’s hands, and she deserved to be safe.
All females did.
It wasneverokay for anyone to do anything to someone else that went against their will. I’d lost my mother, an innocent bystander, who hadn’t had a choice in what had happened to her.
Death had been quick for her, thank fuck, but that wasn’t the case for other innocents. It grated my tits that there were men out there who ran auctions to sell shifters, who took what they wanted without asking, who thought it made them stronger when they could dominate.
I had never taken a woman against her will, and I wasn’t about to start. There was a special karmic hell for beings who did that to females.
I sighed. I would take care of her, make sure she was safe, but I wouldn’t get any closer than I needed to get to her. Not if I could help myself.
This damn attraction was something else, but I was stronger than that.
It was weakness that had gotten my dad killed once upon a time. The demon after me wouldn’t let me keep her safe, and that was a generational curse. That fact that it could happen to me still haunted me, but at least sex, alcohol, and a rush of power drowned it out most of the time. The rest of the time… I tried to ignore it and not let my conscience get the better of me.
Or show anyone that I actually had one. That was one way to get myself killed or kicked out as alpha—showing mercy. In this life, there was no room for it. My parents had died without mercy, and if I buckled at all, I would die, too.
There was only room to be the alpha, and to do what needed to be done to stay at the top.
Uma and Kinley walked in front of me, and I watched Kinley’s ass as it swung from side to side.
Fuck. Me.
5
KINLEY
Alarge, expensive car took us from the action grounds out of the city and toward the forest. When the trees got larger and taller all around me, my heart yearned to be out there, to be free.
I belonged to Braxton now. What did that mean? What would happen to me? It felt like a lifetime ago since I’d walked home from work and had been attacked. How many days had it been? Two? I’d lost track of time between waiting in cages in a dark warehouse, sleeping, and waking without knowing the time.
Maybe if I had people in my life who cared, they would have come looking for me. Conveniently, I had no one. The girls at work were only there to pass the time at the water cooler with, none of them even knew where I lived or had my phone number. My foster parents had died, and my boss could easily replace me.
Even before I’d disappeared, I’d barely existed.
Go figure.
It was still hard to wrap my mind around someone owning me—this wasn’t something that should have been possible in this day and age, in this modern, free world.
