Chapter 134: "I got rejected."

Quinn confirms something I've known for a while now.

Hunter is an animal.

I don’t think there’s a human side to him. I wanted to believe there was. That deep down something in him curls when he does these things. That something in him protests when he has an old lady shackled and whipped by his guards because she couldn’t give him the results he wanted.

The marks were red and furious on her back when Quinn showed them to us and I could see flashes of pity on Danis’s face as he numbed the flesh there.

She had been crouching because of them.

We’ve promised to get her out, but she has to keep her end of the deal. She’s agreed and now…… now Danis is as silent as a graveyard as we ride back to Ironclaw Corp.

My heart pounds softly in my chest and something static resides in my bones. I feel still.

I need Roman.

At the thought of him, our mate bond pulses softly and I chase that feeling. The feeling of his strong arms and his comfortable heat. The way he can be a rock I lean on and