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Holy Shit

“Only with partners who are consenting and want to receive pain,” Mia said quickly

“I don’t think that I could evernot that it ether”

All three of the looks of disbelief

“Are you in trouble, Thea?” Mia asked “We can help you Jardin can help you He’s a good guy”

She shook her head “I’m fine I don’t need any help If you’ll excuse me, I have to pick my brothers up from their friends house”

It wasn’t until after she’d fled that she realized she hadn’t asked the diner owner about her apartment

“Where the hell could she have gone?”

Carrick watched as Jardin paced back and forth across the office They were at the Malone family home If you could call it a hoeous, but it wasn’t exactly ho in case he broke it

Then Gerald, the butler, would have his ass

Jardin’s oldest brother, Regent, watched hient was scary as shit If Jardin could be arrogant and cold, then Regent was ice Pure, chilling ice The only time he ever saw him warm up was around their sister, Lottie

“She hasn’t used her accounts We found her phone in the mall We know she took an Uber from the school to the est Malone brother said

Regent was the oldest then it was Jardin, Victor then Maxiirl Protected and coddled, especially after all that she’d been through

“What are we going to do?” Jardin said

“We’ll find her,” Maxiet her”