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TWENTY-TWO

Blaze was torn between his desire to take Eden far away from the man who wanted to hurt her...and the even stronger desire to rip Tremotino limb from limb for threatening her in the first place.

His lips burned from her bite – which shouldn't be possible. Something so tiny should have healed instantly.

Unless she truly was his mate, and that bite had been her initiating the bond when he was too busy dithering to do it.

Tremotino had threatened his mate. Which meant he could not suffer Tremotino to live.

Blaze left his mate on the balcony and raced inside, to find Tremotino almost out the door.

Not while he drew breath. He seized Tremotino around the throat and lifted him into the air.

"My men threw you out. You have no right to be here!" Tremotino wheezed. Like the man had any authority right now.

"I got bored and left. Your men had nothing to do with it," Blaze growled. "I only came back for her. Good thing, too. I thought you were trash when all I thought you did was develop land illegally. Now, it turns out you not only rape priceless historical sites, but you're turning your villainy on people, too? What makes you think you have the right to hold women against their will in your castle, so you can have your way with them?"

"She's my price!" Tremotino coughed out. "My fee for hosting this ball for that bloody school that lives rent free on my property! They have their balls here, and I get one girl to do whatever I want to for the night!"

Mirror Academy was selling their students to trash like this? When he was done with Tremotino, Blaze was going to pay that so-called headmistress a visit. This time, a whole army of gargoyles wouldn't protect her.

Then his mind caught up. Not one ball, but multiple balls. Eden wasn't the first girl he'd taken. What if the last girl he'd tried to claim was Diana?

"What did you do to my sister?" Blaze hissed.

Tremotino grinned. "I fucked her senseless, while she begged and pleaded and screamed for more. Just like all the others. They love it, you know. Being showed who's boss by a real alpha male."

A man who had to drug women to get close to them.

"Coward!" Blaze bellowed. He slammed Tremotino into the floor, and felt considerable satisfaction when something cracked. He longed to smash the man's face, but he'd get no answers out of Tremotino if he had a broken jaw. So he aimed lower, breaking a couple of ribs instead.

Blaze took a deep breath. "Tell me where my sister is, or the next one will turn your head into pulp."