Page 175 of Seizing Control: Part Two

I pat Garrett on the head as I follow Lily deeper into her home.

Like lost puppies we trail behind her, uncertain and knocked off balance by her lack of anger over our incursion into her territory last night. It felt like the right thing to do at the time. We can’t allow her to dictate all the terms of this relationship, so using a loophole that would make Hunter proud, Slash’s idea to setup an ongoing scavenger hunt designed to provoke her temper.

As competitor for my sweet thing’s heart, we don’t agree on much.

The one thing we are in complete concurrence over is Lily’s retreat from herself. She might be a natural mother, but she’s also a

We distracted ourselves for a six hours at my workshop. The snake charm I created was Slash’s idea. It’s emblematic of our struggles to accept the claim the other man has over Lily. My insulting description of the way he slithered in my sweet thing’s heart while I was gone is only half the story.

The full truth is a hell of a lot more convoluted.

I see now that she’s loved him as long as she’s loved me.

I had to stop him from diving into a bottle of whiskey.

He dist

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