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and snagging my wrist. “And what if I can’t get to you in time? What if my favors don’t come through?”

“Trust me to stay alive. If those furry guys are planning to sell me, that means they don’t want me dead. At least not right away. I can look after myself. So let me do it.”

I stare down into his hard face, and then I’m pushing his hair back and running my finger down his long scar.

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or not at all,” I quote. He stares at me, frowning, and I brush my fingers over his cheek. “I trust you to find me,” I whisper. “Trust me too.”

He trembles for a long moment, and then he pulls me closer, pressing his lips to mine. He kisses me like I’m something infinitely precious. Like he can’t handle the thought of losing me. Like he’ll come for me, no matter how far they take me.

“I don’t want to lose you,” he murmurs. “I just found you, little Flame Hair.”

“We’ve got this,” I reassure him even as my heart pounds at the thought of being separated from him. This is the best plan, I know it. If they take me to be sold, they’re unlikely to be focused on Vrex for a while. I shiver. At least I hope so. I’m trying to ignore the little voice in my head that tells me they’ll kill him when they take me.

No. After the way he killed so many of them and with his reputation on this planet, they’ll want to kill him slowly. Bile rises, but I know I’m right. They’ll want to make a spectacle of his death.

I tremble harder at the thought. What if he doesn’t escape? What if they take me and then kill him and I never see my huge, brave warrior again?

How did it come to this? How did I end up feeling so much for this guy in such a short time? After I’d spent my life holding people at a distance, Vrex kicked down my walls, stalked over my boundaries, and made me care more than I’d ever thought possible.

“I can’t lose you,” I murmur. “Please don’t let them kill you.”

He shakes against me, and I glance up. “Are you…laughing?”

“I may not agree with your plan, Ivy, but it is a good one. Their attention will be split, and they will believe me wounded and unable to get free from here.”

I glance up at the metal grate holding us prisoner. “And how will you get free from here?”

He smiles, and my breath catches in my throat as I stare at him.

The smile leaves his face as we’re both silent for a long moment, and I raise my hand, running my finger over his lips. “You’re even better looking when you smile,” I mutter. “You shouldn’t do that when there are any other women around. Ever.”

His eyes widen, surprise flashing over his face, and then he laughs. “You think any other female would amuse me like you do? Besides, other females are afraid of me, remember?”

His lips twist, and I grin at him. By now, I know him well enough to be sure that the blank expression he’s slapped on his face is covering up the hurt.

“Good,” I say. “Keep being scary. I don’t want to have to fight any bitches for my man.”

The breath leaves him, and he stares at me like he’s never seen me before.

I raise my eyebrow. “What?”

He smiles again, and my chest clenches.

“Yeah, I was serious about you not doing that around anyone else. Keep that sexy smile for me,” I joke.

“You are the only one who makes me want to smile,” he says. Then he leans back slightly and reaches behind his neck. “I want you to wear this,” he says, tying the necklace around my neck.

“Vrex…I can’t. This was your mom’s.”

He nods. “She would have loved you,” he says. “This symbol is for protection. It will keep you safe until I can find you.”

I swallow around the lump in my throat and stroke the gold pendant as Vrex pulls me into his arms and kisses me again.

“We’re going to make them pay,” I murmur. “Them and the Voildi. For what they did to Ilax and for what they’ve done to us.”

He nods. “We will.”

Vrex

The moment that they take Ivy from me is one of the worst of my life. It’s as bad as when I learned that my mother had died. When my father sent me away. When I found Ilax in a pool of his own blood.

It takes all of my self-control to stay seated as they lower a rope and instruct her to hold onto it.

“We’ve got this, Vrex,” she murmurs. Her face is pale, her lower lip trembling, but she squares her shoulders. I clench my fists, battling the urge to reach for her, to take her lips with mine. We’ve already said our goodbyes and agreed to this plan.

But it is not easy.

She takes the rope, and I want to roar as she’s lifted above me. Panic makes my hands shake, and I sit on them, determined to keep my promise, knowing that Ivy is right, that we must be separated for a short time.

But the voice in my head urges me to pull her back to me. To not let her out of my sight. To not risk her.

“Remember your promise,” Ivy murmurs, her eyes holding mine. “Wait for the right time and then fuck some shit up.”

My lips are numb. “I promise.”

I pace the small space like an animal when the metal grate is pushed back into place. This is what I have avoided. When I am foolish enough to get close to people, they are taken from me.

But I will get her back.

I strain, focusing all my attention on listening to what the Voildi are doing above me. It’s quieter than it has been, and it is likely that most

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