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Alexander knew that.Sawthat. He may have been protecting her, but he knew her potential and used our military to train her to be a killer, a fighting machine, and most importantly, someone who takes orders.

Someone who takes orders...

“There is one thing I need you to answer. Who do you belong to?” I ask her low and huskily.

“What do you mean?”

“Who owns you?” Ava’s cheeks blaze under my lover’s stroke. “Where are your loyalties right now? Your brothers or me?”

“You,” she says immediately with a high-pitched squeak.

Because she thinks I’m letting her go. Ares will keep her in matrimony chains forever. I’m her way out. But every time I touch this woman, every time I sink my dick into her, every night when I wake up and feel her against me, her leg thrown over mine, a smile on her sleeping lips, I know deep in my heart, she’s everything I’ve ever wanted.

And I amnotletting her go.

But I’ll forever have a horrified image in my head of what happened to the last man who put Ava Zervas in a cage.

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

Ava

“Now, you need to bepunished for what you did.” Griffin reaches for the waistband of those sexy cargo pants he wears when he turns into a warrior. “How you worried me.”

“You can’t wait until we get home?” I glance around and then down at Ted’s lifeless body. “Won’t the clean-up team be here soon?”

“Then we better work fast. Take off my belt, Ava. I need to fill that lovely mouth with my cock. Don’t make me ask you again.”

Clearing my throat, because I know I’m in for a brutal throat fucking, I unravel the saddle brown leather belt from his pants. The buckle clanging punctuates the silence.

Slipping it around the loop, Griffin takes it from me. “Good wife. Now unzip me.”

“You’ve got two perfectly good working hands for that.”

He holds my jaw with the one that’s bloody. “Say that again.”

I could be a brat and tell him that I love giving him head so this is hardly a punishment. I put myself at risk when I didn’t have to. I get it. Saying sorry won’t help me.