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KNIGHT IS INthe back seat of the car that Lotus and I are taking to drive to the Polloi compound. She and I get in, and I get ready to start the car, and I see movement out of the corner of my eye in the mirror and then he’s up and on me.

He stuns me, and it hurts like fuck.

Lotus is screaming at him, but he ignores her, focusing entirely on subduing me.

“Sorry about the stun gun, Arrow,” Knight says. “But I couldn’t do it any other way. I couldn’t risk you fighting me off.” He handcuffs me to the steering wheel and presses the stun gun against my skin. It’s not on, but it’s a threat. “Drive.”

“Seriously?” I say.

“Yeah, if you stun him while he’s driving, he’ll kill us all,” says Lotus. “What the fuck is going on, Knight?”

“I’m not losing you,” he says fiercely. “None of you. Now drive, Arrow, or I will have to put you in the fucking trunk.”

I start the car. “Okay, I’m driving, but this is fucked up, man. I get that you don’t understand how to have a relationship or whatever, but you don’t just force people at stun-gun-point to do your bidding. That’s not how this works.”

“Drive,” he mutters.

Lotus shakes her head at him. “What is wrong with you?”

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KNIGHT TOOK MEfrom the living room of our apartment, handcuffed me and forced me into his car. Now, he’s walking me into a room in an abandoned warehouse, one decked out with kerosene lights, bean bag chairs, and blankets. It’s not going to be real comfortable, but he sort of tried.

I’m sort of amused and touched despite myself.

I still remember the time that I was crying and Knight held me, the way he took possession of me in a very sexy fucking way. He made me feel safe in a way that I haven’t felt safe since I was a kid.

I love this man.

I get he just captured me and now he’s keeping all of us prisoner here, and that’s, um, fucked up, but…

In his way, he’s being kind of sweet. What passes for sweet from Knight anyway.

Lotus is perched on a bean bag chair, looking murderous.

Both Arrow and Calix are handcuffed and each lying on their stomachs on separate blankets.

He nudges me down on my knees on another blanket, and I settle there, looking up at him, chuckling under my breath. “Knight. You can’t—”

“I can do whatever I want,” he tells me. He reaches down and rubs his thumb over his bite mark on my body, and it makes me feel shivery and good and turned on. But then, I’ve had an erection since the minute he handcuffed me, so I don’t even know what to do with that. “First thing we’re all going to do is tell Calix that we don’t want him to leave us.”

Calix laughs. “Okay, but Knight if you force them to—”

“None of us want him to leave,” snaps Lotus. “He knows that already, and he’s doing it anyway. He wants to do it for himself. We care about him, so we are letting him make his own decision.”

“Fuck that,” says Knight, shaking his head. “Fuck that, no.” He leaves me and goes and kneels down next to Calix. “I’m not letting you go. You understand that?”

Calix laughs. “Just going to keep me hostage here until I agree to be your boyfriend again, Knight?”

“Mate,” says Knight. “Come on, Calix, we are more than boyfriends. This is forever, and you know it. I would die for you, now what the hell makes you think you can just leave?”

Calix is smiling. He likes it. He likes being told that he can’t leave, and I realize, now, we maybe did the wrong thing with him. I did understand where he was coming from, and I know he didn’t want to be forced. I didn’t want to force him, but maybe I didn’t convey to him how much I want him.

“I know what you need,” says Knight, getting to his feet. He starts working on his zipper. “Get up on your knees, baby,” he tells Calix, his voice velvet.

Calix’s scent gets deep and dark and delectable as he obeys. “You know, despite what you may think, Knight, giving people your cock to suck does not solve every problem.”