Part Seventy-Five

Dominic regarded Lev with interest. He hadn’t objected to Gage taking his cousin so he must have seen something in Gage’s eyes that settled him. Neither Faro nor Eris were equipped to deal with that girl’s trauma. As hard and cold as Gage was, his protectiveness over people he cared about was on another level. That girl would be safest with him because he’d see her as his.

“My sister is now under your protection. Our families share the same values. My sister is not to be touched before the alliance contract is signed. Once you have pledged your family to ours on paper, you may touch her, not before. I’m not too worried about you hurting her, she can look after herself,” Dominic said.

“Then we will exchange women when we sign the alliance contract. I know your family is big on virginity so I have to admit that Anya is not one,” Lev said.

Dominic had already ascertained that the woman had been touched, hurt, and most probably brutalized. Gage was taking on a fuck load of responsibility b