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Chapter One

Reyes gripped two dangling rusted iron chains, one in each hand, as he stared down at Sweet Dove’s bondage platform She’d tortured him in exactly this place for an entire century She’d bound and hurt him at other locations as well, but this had been her favorite

The platform smelled damn familiar, old blood and sex

His nostrils flared

Reh hiain, his rationalin and out

He struggled to hold it together, soelica out of Sweet Dove’s hands

Sweet Dove had pulled them out of the Starlin masked ball so that he still wore his Roman military costuelica had changed into a black dominatrix outfit

Sweet Dove see-sleeved white blouse displaying a gold bra beneath She looked more like a sexy businesswoman than a vile sadist But then she’d just revealed the truth to him that she was Scorpion, the owner and founder of the Starlin slaver organization that had abducted Angelica and sold her at auction a little over a week ago

Slowly he shifted his gaze to Sweet Dove, who stood to the right of the platfor from her cruel, curved-bow lips Such a slinted with ht-red hair, alave her a strangely innocent look as did her pale skin

Sweet Dove wanted him to say yes to her, so that like old tiain

Once he was bound, she would be free to do whatever she wanted She could hurt him as much as she liked She could even kill him

In for her sessions with hied for death

But she always brought him back, and at ti him He was under no illusions about the wo upset she ht lose a favorite chew toy

Angelica’s voice entered his mind, a sudden quiet sound that pierced the cacophony Reyes, come back to me I’m here I’m with you You’re not alone

Still holding the chains he pivoted slightly toward her

Angelica All too huest surprise of his long-lived life

She stood on the left side of the platfor her black leather dominatrix costume, the one Sweet Dove had insisted she wear She was so beautiful with large ware her a vulnerable appearance She eet Dove’s opposite in every way

He didn’t want her to die, but because Sweet Dove was an Ancestral and powerful beyond words, there was a strong chance neither of them would make it out of this room alive

Sweet Dove had made it clear that he either let her bind him in chains on this table once ood

The decision seeht now, he’d forfeit decades of effort spent positioning hiroup that abducted tens of thousands of human females each year Most of the slaves died within the first two years of captivity, and Starlin made it their extremely profitable business to replace those numbers as needed