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Micah

we need to start looking into some solutions for our Gloria problem

Micah

Rami, I want you to track down the regents. I want any and all intel they have on her.

Micah

Grace and Breann, go up to Madison in Scotland. See if she can offer Sam refuge if needed

Micah

Benji, you’re on research. Dig up everything you can about protection of mates and see if you can find anything that prohibits harming a mate before they are bonded

Micah

Nate and Theo, you’ll stay here too, on guard duty. No one in or out.

Micah

Noah, you’re to stay and keep an eye on the twins

Nate

rude

Theo

innit – it’s like they don’t think we can behave

Rami

tbf, we have centuries of evidence that suggests you can’t

Theo

he’s got a point there

Rami

what are you and Nox going to do, Micah?

Micah

we’re going to pay a visit to some old friends.

On the one hand, I’d never been so grateful for my unit. They were rallying around me, trying to find a way out of the clusterfuck we were in. Not only that, but they were doing so in a way that meant I could spend time with Sam. But on the other hand, it was a reminder of what we were up against. Of the ticking clock that fucking bitch was holding over our heads.

“Everything okay?” Sam asked. I looked up to see him staring at me.

I turned the screen to black, trying to ignore the knot in my gut. What the fuck could we do about Gloria? If he didn’t want to be my mate, I wasn’t going to force him. What would we do then? Go on the run to Scotland? Ask Lucifer’s sons for help again? They’d helped us before, but that was mostly because of Micah’s history with Dimitri. Was that who Micah and Nox were going to visit? “Yep.”

“Good.” Sam leaned back on the sofa, spreading his thighs wide. “Because I do believe you have a promise to follow through on.”

He didn’t need to ask me twice.

I spent far longer working him over than I had last night. Pulling out every tool in my arsenal, I deep throated him until he was gasping and tugging on my hair.

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