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I sink my teeth into his pectoral muscle in retaliation, and he groans. "We're already naked, Cynthia. You're not helping."
When I feel his hardness against my leg, I blush. "G-Get your thing under control!"
"Stop teasing me then," he retorts.
I bury my face in his chest. "I'm sorry! Will you just…"
He gathers me in his arms, chuckling. "Ignore it. Being around you is enough for 'my thing' to lose control. How are you feeling?"
"Tired."
He strokes my hair lovingly. "Yeah. It'll be like that for a couple of days."
"Is Riya okay?" I look up at him.
"Safe and sound." His fingers comb my hair, and it makes me both drowsy and happy. "Norman's a real piece of work. I didn't know he was that obsessed with you."
"If he's alive, then––"
"He lost an arm," Adam tells me. "There's no coming back from that. Either he's dead or the vampires will kill him. I doubt the vampires have any more use for him now. They don’t associate with those they consider weak."
"I hope so," I murmur. "I didn't know he killed my parents."
"I'm sorry," Adam says softly.
My shoulders move in a shrug. "They sold me off, so I don't care."
"If it makes you feel better, my sister and your brother, who were the reason behind your slave contract, are now destitute and struggling to survive. I cut off all funding to them. My grandfather had set up some investments in my sister's name and the account had been accumulating. She was getting money from it every month. I cut her off from it."
"I don't feel sorry about that," I declare after thinking it over. "Is Tina okay?"
"Few bruises here and there, but she's okay."
"I didn't know that about her family. I thought Watson was a good person."
"So did I," Adam confesses. "It was around the time when you left that Tina told me of the kind of man he was. He wanted a son, and he took mate after mate, trying to conceive a boy. Aside from Tina, he killed all the women he marked and mated when they bore him girls. The children were not spared either. It was a traumatizing childhood for her. She saw her mother die before her eyes. She never forgave him. He colluded with the vampires because he intended to use me as a puppet for a while and then get rid of me and take over once he had accumulated enough power."
"What about the pack now?" I ask, slowly.
"Well, I'll be fixing up the slums first and bringing back some of the social policies my grandfather had implemented to decrease unemployment. Everybody deserves a good standard of living, and we'll start there. I know you don't want to leave Detroit so––"
"I'll go wherever you're going." I close my eyes. "Riya and I will stay with you. I don't mind."
Adam lets out a shaky breath before pressing his lips to the top of my head. "Thank you, sweetheart."
"Please don't go around getting stabbed again." I kiss his chest. "It's a lot of work running around saving you."
His chest rumbles with laughter. "Very cute."
"I thought so." I grin, eyes still closed.
After a moment, I say, "Adam?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't want to be Cynthia Rose either."
He smiles deeply. "Then, I guess you'll have to be Cynthia Moore."
