Page 13 of Cherished By the Sinners

Mason bared his teeth and very carefully, without looking away, closed the door to the suite.

She’d seen him look like this a couple of times, right before he and his brother beat the shit out of someone who’d made a threat in the restaurant.They hadn’t known she’d seen them since they took the guy outside in the alley next to the hotel, but she’d followed and watched.

The man had deserved every kick and punch, but they hadn’t done more than rough him up.

Mason looked angrier now.A lot angrier.

The idiot hurting her was going to get beat to within an inch of his life.

Then Mason would lose his job.Rescuing her.

Chapter Five

Darlene

Damn it.She triedto think about what Sam would tell her to do, but nothing came to mind.

Mason started walking toward her and the man holding her arm.

The other people in the room moved as well, coming closer.All of them had the same cold, flat expression on their faces.Like they were a bunch of reptiles and she and Mason were food.

This was bad.So very bad.Everything was going wrong.All thanks to some nasty people.She was so tired of mean, horrible people.

The anger that she’d stuffed down earlier when she grasped how closely Mason and Magnus watched her on the security cameras ignited into a blue flame.

She wasn’t going to let these horrible people hurt Mason.She wasn’t.

Darlene tried to pull her arm away, but the man holding her jerked her back.She went with the motion, turning and lifting her knee into his balls as hard as she could.

He bent, his eyes bugging out, his face a mask of pain.

She thrust her foot behind his leg and pushed him over it, putting all of her body weight behind the shove.

He slammed to the floor, gasping as his breath was knocked out of him.

Everyone in the room stopped where they were, staring at the man on the floor, then at her.