Chapter Fourty four

Jake

The female’s scent slithers around me, perfuming the air and filling my lungs with each breath.

There’s something intoxicatingly sweet about it.

Something I want to taste.

“She tried to kill Jack,” Jordan says conversationally as we walk in the general direction of the main docks. It’s the location where the guards should have taken the girl. But instead they went to the opposite side of the

island where they couldn’t anchor their boat.

Cowards, I think. “They were going to throw her cage in the water and let her drown. I think her assassination attempt is warranted.”

“He was technically helping her by letting her out of the cage and removing the muzzle.”

“Because he wanted to fuck her,” I return.

Jordan ’s silvery eyes gleam knowingly as he looks at me. “And you don’t?”

I grunt. “Entirely not the point. I didn’t try to drown her.”

“Fair,” he replies. “Well, it’s a good thing you anticipated their usual fuckery. She would have drowned if Kev hadn’t pulled her out.”

I grunt again