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“I fucking said no one touches her,” Dario said.
“She was begging for it,” the male said, as he rolled to his knees but didn’t get up.
“I have video cams in here, asshole. Go to your quarters and stay there until I decide what to do with you.”
Dario watched the male rush out of the room, and then turned to face her. “It’s a good thing I happened to come down here and see that the door was open. He didn’t hurt you, right?”
“No. Dario, please let me go. I just want to go home.”
“I’m sure you do, but you can’t until I get my brother back. For your sake, I hope it’s before the next dose is due.” He glanced at his watch. “You’ve got twenty-three minutes.”
And then she was alone once more.
The door locked.
The silence was almost deafening in that weird way that having too much time alone with your thoughts can make you go batshit crazy.
She quickly calculated how much time twenty-three minutes was.
Thirteen-hundred and some seconds, each precious one slipping away no matter how much she wished that time would just stand still.
* * *
Lucian called with a minute left to the two-hour time limit. The problem was that he was an hour out from his destination, which was a further two hours from the ravens’ nest, where he’d need to transport Antonio in order to get Mia.
“I need three hours,” he told Dario when he answered the video call.
“You were given explicit instructions on what would happen if you didn’t show up here with my brother in two hours.”
“You asked the impossible. The nest is four hours from the office.”
“A smarter male than you would have found a way.”
Lucian smashed his fist against the steering wheel. “Give me the time I need!”
“You can have it, but your girl will suffer. The second dose is worse than the first, of course. It all just builds up in the system and will slowly break down her resolve. Eventually she’ll beg for cock. I’m sure you won’t hold it against her.”
His beast twitched inside him. Anxious. Furious.
“Please,” Lucian said, his teeth gritted against the roar in his throat. He didn’t want to think of Mia suffering. It made him want to open the trunk and beat the living hell out of Antonio.
Dario smiled in an entirely creepy way, and then the camera panned to Mia, still naked, still bound to the hospital bed.
“No, please,” she groaned as a male in a lab coat came near her with a needle. “Lucian!”
Her pleas wrapped around him like wool. He felt like he was choking.
“Mia! I’m coming. I won’t let you down.”
Dario chuckled as Mia writhed on the bed, repeating Lucian’s name. Then Dario’s face filled the screen. “Two more hours or she’ll get dose three.”
He glanced at the clock. “I’ll be there.”
“Come to the stronghold with my brother – alive and well – and I’ll let you take your girl home. But if you kill my brother, I won’t just slaughter Mia; I’ll kill her entire family, starting with that cute little half-wolf boy. What was his name? Oh, right. Jack. And I’ll be sure to let them know that you betrayed them all before I send them to the afterlife.”
Lucian felt his beast stirring white-hot within him. The bonds were holding it in check, but for the first time in his life he honestly wondered if the magic was strong enough to keep it down.
“She better be untouched, too,” Lucian said.
