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"Am I a prisoner?" Ashley asked, arms crossed as she stood in the kitchen doorway of the White God's sprawling ranch house located on the co his headquarters She eak and tired but healed She recalled nothing about what happened fro her ass kicked until she woke up in a quiet guest bedroom in a place she didn't want to be the next day

"Can you cook?" asked the athletic blond man at the stove

She snorted "No" Dusty was at the top of the food chain, someone she'd met because of Xander's iuess not," was his cool, surly response "No one else in this fucking house can azed at hiry?" he asked

She nodded and sat at the breakfast bar "You're Jonny's sister's husband, right?"

"I ae the Guardians in the Western Hemisphere" Dusty scooped out paella and poured it into a boith rice He set it on the counter in front of her before returning to the stove

Ashley said nothing, suspecting she knehy he was the one talking to her thisShe stirred the paella to help it cool

"I hear you've developed your skill pretty well," he added when she was quiet

"Yeah"

"You interested in joining up?"

"Not really"

"Letconscripted?" he asked and sat doo seats frolance, suspecting the leanon "Pretty hard," she ad"