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“You’re not allowed to hurt yourself.” I rope his wrist to his chair.
“I deserve to hurt. What they did to you—”
“Neither of us deserves to hurt.” I pull the knot hard. “I’ll punish you if you need to be punished.”
The second those cursed fucking words spill out, my thoughts catch up with my mouth. Shit. “Not that you need to be… I didn’t mean—”
“Punish me.” Finn offers me his wrists and a pair of freaking police handcuffs he lifted.
I bat him away.
But Jett.
“I understand.” He fingers the tie with a gravity-crushing gaze that makes me shiver down to my soul.
Understand what?
I don’t even understand. “I just don’t want to see you hurting yourself. Okay?”
“Yes.” His head tips up, and those eyes—
Dark, glittering need.
My breath hitches.
I swear I said no strings.
No ties or bonds or promises.
But Jett cuffed himself to me without permission, and when he strokes the knotted silk around his wrist, my heart gives a fluttering quiver.
I think I just walked myself into his snare.
TWENTY-FOUR
LILAH
The officers finish taking my statement, and I feel so much lighter after the truth is free. Now I don’t have to hide or suffer, and hypothetically, Noelle’s going down.
Or being made into a series of encyclopedias.
Don’t care as long as she pays.
The lightness only lasts until we hit Wyvern House HQ.
Pulling up to the gates, there’s no way to mistake the place as anything but a military compound.
Cameras and K-9 units.
Fences and barbed wire.
When we pull through the parking gate, muscle men in tight Wyvern camo use mirrors to check under our car for bombs.
Atlas is right.
If I’m not safe here, I’m not safe anywhere.
All I want is a few days of peace and no attempted kidnappings so I can pick my heat partners and chill down my hard-ridden hormones.
