"Be gentle, please. You already roughed her up more than I wish you would have." I move Cleo's hair out of her face once my men set her down on my bed. I grit my teeth at the sight of dried blood around her nose and the corner of her mouth."Leave." They shuffle out without a word, leaving me to her. When I first seen her, unconcious and with broken fingers and bruises all over her body, my first desire was to kill every single idiot I had stupidly sent out to retrieve my mate. But then I told myself, it was my own fault. I never should've trusted anyone but myself with this task. It had been a stragetic move, I hadn't wanted to be recognized by anyone and blow the whole thing. But seeing Cleo all battered and torn up, made me deeply regret my choice. I was as stupid as them, and so I let them live. "You finally came back to me..." I sit on my knees beside the bed we would now be sharing, watching her sleep. I smiled a little at how peacful she looked right now. Even as a child, she a
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