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"You tried the usual tactics?" I ask, glancing down at his knuckles.
Rafe huffs out a laugh. "Of course I did--and Fallon tried good cop. But we didn't get anything."
"How bloody did it get?" I ask.
Rafe shrugs. "Eh...a little. Not as much as I wanted, but Jade came down here and told me to lay off."
"Good thing she did," I mutter. "We don't want a dead ACB agent on our hands."
He gives me a sharp-toothed grin. "I don't know, man...seems to me the more dead ACB agents, the better."
I shake my head and leave Rafe behind to walk into the cell, where Maddox is sitting tied to a chair with his hands behind his back. He's real fucking bloody--more than I would have liked, especially since Kendra seems to have formed an attachment to him. His lip is busted, and his hair hangs in blood-soaked strands across his forehead.
Still, he manages to sneer at me when I walk in.
Yeah...I get it. He's got a really punch-able face.
"You fucked her," Maddox says, inhaling deeply. I'm shocked he can scent her over the coppery smell in here. It's awful. "I'm jealous."
"What do you want, Maddox?" I ask. "Why are you here?"
"I told you back in the city what I wanted," he says. "Kendra. Just Kendra. I gave up everything for her and came willingly to your fucking base...I don't know what else you want from me."
I pull up a chair and sit across from him, leaning forward with my elbows on my knees. Maddox doesn't balk, his dark eyes trained on mine even as he spits some blood out on the floor.
"I didn't want them to rough you up like this," I mutter. "I apologize."
"Don't come in here and play good cop," he snorts. "You took me into custody. And let's be real...I would have done the same to you."
"That doesn't make me want to trust you," I tell him.
"I don't need you to trust me," he replies. "What I need you to understand is that, from the second I set Kendra loose at the auction house, I made a choice...and that choice washer.Not the ACB, not the Enclave. Just her."
"Why?"
"Because she smells fucking delicious," Maddox says. "I don't know, man...I don't have any other explanation."
"You want to keep her safe; that should make you an asset, I guess," I breathe out. "I mean...I'm glad you came here, I'm glad you kept her out of ACB clutches, glad you got a hold of us...but now I don't know what to do with you."
I glance down at the floor, and Maddox says, "She's fucking amazing, man. Yes, she's fucking with my head, but that's nothing compared to what she's doing to my dick."
"She's mated to me and Zane," I mutter.
"But she wants me too," he says. "And you're gonna let her have me, aren't you? Because you're just as beholden to her desires as I am."
"Rafe is more inclined to throw you overboard and let you drown...or worse," I say. "You're lucky to be alive out here."
"I'll be with Kendra or I'll die," he shrugs. "I made that decision when I turned on the ACB."
I lean back and blow out a breath, shaking my head as I wonder what the hell I'm going to do with him. "Do you have information?"
"Yeah, but I'll only give it to her."
"What kind?"
He hums. "Pass codes, ACB stronghold locations, safehouses...I know all kinds of things," he says. "Not that the information is evergreen--they'll know pretty soon that I've turned on them, and then they'll change the codes, move things around. The ACB is established enough to be agile."
"So you need to talk to her today," I say.
