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“Wrong answer.” My voice comes out gruff and hard with emotion, and I don’t even try to hide it. “You’re fucking wrong if you think that. You’re not ruined. You’re strong as hell. You’re a queen, with four men who would all get on our knees for you. We wouldn’t want you so damn bad if you weren’t steel all the way through, baby girl. You’re not. Fucking. Ruined.”
“River, please.”
“Please come back to me, baby,” I whisper roughly. “Don’t do this. Don’t let the darkness take you. You’re stronger than this, I know it. Please. Come back to us. We fucking need you.”
He makes a soft noise into the kiss and pulls me in even closer, closing the already tiny amount of distance between us.
It’s like I can feel Gage’s soul calling out to mine, drawing me back from the cold and the dark and trying to lead me home.
“Fuck.” Gage curses into the kiss as he licks his tongue over my lips. “Stay with me,” he murmurs. “Don’t let go, baby girl.”
“I’ve got you,” he promises. “I’ve fucking got you.”
Ours.
“Goddamn,” Ash pants from behind me, and I half wish I could turn my head to see him. To watch him as he fucks into my ass over and over again. “I’m close.” “Already?” Knox asks, but he’s just as breathless and his voice is just as strained. “I know her ass is tight, but damn.” “Fuck off,” Ash snaps back, but there’s no heat in it.
Flushed and satisfied and fucking mine.
For the first time in what feels like a long time, I let myself do something that feels more wild and dangerous than anything else I’ve ever done. I let myself hope.
Something has snapped inside me—the same kind of emotion I felt after she got taken and held captive by Julian, what feels like forever ago now. It’s a wild, unhinged need to make her mine so completely that nothing and no one can ever take her away.

