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wasn’t safe.
    Jax laughed maniacally. “Oh, no you’re not. You’re mine , Besh. That means you aren’t done until I say you are. And guess what, babe. We’ll never be done.” He ripped the back of her nightgown from the neck to the hem, palming the cheeks of her butt. “This body is mine and you’ll use it to give me young.”
    Besh froze as his tongue swiped along the mating mark at her neck. A reminder that she was his property. Tears streamed down her cheeks, landing on the hardwood of the floor. She stared at them in confusion. She couldn’t recall the last time she’d cried. Maybe at home when her mother had forced Vesh to do unthinkable things for the sake of money. Maybe after she’d condemned Cael before the elders.
    When? When ? She couldn’t remember, and it seemed like a crucial detail.
    His palm forced her head to the floor and she screamed. “Stop! Stop .” She clawed at his hand, but he grabbed her wrist, twisting her arm behind her back until she felt a pop.
    “Be still, and it will be over soon, mate.”
    “No! No, no. You’ll never have what you want. I won’t do it. I’ll die before any young of yours comes out of my womb.”
    She bucked against his hold but the agony in her arm was too much. Jax’s erection brushed against her leg and her stomach heaved. NO .
    Besh twisted her head toward the partially open door. She’d have to separate herself from the situation. And when it was done, she’d kill him. Murder him in his sleep if that’s what it took. He’d die for this.
    “No, no, no,” she whispered, eyes glued to the door. She imagined making it through the small opening, into the dark of the room beyond, and then going farther and farther until she was beyond the boundary of the camp. And even farther until she found the Ravendales. She’d betrayed their alpha. He’d want revenge. He might send her away. He might even kill her. Either way, he’d never be as cruel as Jax.
    Her hand reached for the door just so a part of her was still resisting. Her hand, and her eyes with their tears, and her mouth repeating no, no, no .
    She imagined she found Cael. Imagined what he looked like all these years later. Harder eyes, a touch of a beard, bigger, sturdier than she recalled. The expression on his face when recognition hit him. Like, relief. Like he’d been looking for her too. And then rage. So much rage.
    “No,” she moaned, this time because she needed him to not be angry with her. Not in this moment, in her imagination. She needed him to take her away from this horror. Just get her through the worst of it so she could recover enough to kill her mate.
    The apparition of Cael reared back, kicking the door so hard it loosened from its hinges. For a moment everything seemed to stop. Like the action had frozen time. Even the beat of her heart failed. And then like water rushing from an opened dam, everything spilled forward.
    Cael lunged at her, but she wasn’t his intended target. Suddenly, the weight of the alpha was gone and she could move. She scrambled to the door but before she could get through it, her brother appeared, and Avan.
    “What the hell ?” Vesh roared.
    Besh blinked over and over trying to make sense of what was happening. Cael and Jax were trading blows. The footboard of the bed cracked as Cael threw the alpha into it. The room filled with snarls as wolves threatened to surface.
    “She’s in heat,” Avan called to Vesh over the noise. “They won’t stop until one of them is dead.”
    Vesh dropped to his knees next to Besh. “Fine by me.”
    “Vesh!” Avan yelled. “What if the wrong one dies?”
    He ignored her, gently brushing Besh’s hair aside to examine the damage to her face.
    “Shit,” Avan muttered, jumping up and down like a boxer in a ring. “I can’t let him kill my mate.”
    And like that, things became clear for Besh. This was real. Vesh and Avan and… Cael . They were here, and they were helping her.
    Vesh’s gaze landed on her