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A lamb being torn apart by a wild animal. A pig sent to the slaughter. A weak man meeting his deserved end.

The restraints allowed just a bit of wiggle room on his body, but his arms and legs were secured too.

This man wouldn’t be escaping her.

Hawk marveled at her. He should be disgusted, creeped out.

Instead, he was impressed. Opening his eyes to see her in an entirely new light.

She wasn’t some woman that thought herself too good for them. That ran off into the sunset looking for her white picket fence.

No.

Ashmine is insane.

Perfectly so.

“The animal trap next,” Ashmine told Ace.

She turned to Hawk and Silas, appraising them.

“I told you. I can handle my own. I’ll wrap this up soon. And then we can all have our fun.”

Hawk’s heart beat aggressively in his chest. He couldn’t feel it, but it was so loud it echoed around him.

But it wasn’t thumping in anxiety.

No. It was because he wasexcited.

Chapter 20

Silas

My little girl. My sweet Ashmine.

My foster sister.

She is a murderer.

A torturer.

Hot as fucking all hell.

Silas stared on as Ashmine took a contraption from Ash’s hands. A metal trap that looked straight out of a dungeon.

Silas wanted to be angry, enraged. He was sitting in a fucking chair unable to move.

Because of Ashmine.

But the video. Ace’s words. Ashmine’s explanation…

It delivered to him a moment of clarity. That he had assumed. When she said she chose him, he thought she meant just Silas.

Not that she had chosen them all.

But she was right. She had never elaborated. Never promised Silas exclusivity. He couldn’t continue to hold this anger, thisgrudgeover something she hadn’t even done.

Silas was enraged when he found out Ace had taken her virginity. Thinking they had chosen to cross the boundaries on their own. Thinking she had chosen him as her favorite.

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