-GABRIEL-
It took everything within me not to lunge over LaCroix’s gaudy desk and rip the still beating heart from his chest once he turned his attention to Elena. Naturally Eric and I stepped in front of our mate protectively with the full intention of annihilating the Prince and his ass-faced gorilla, as our fiery woman so cleverly called him, if they had so much as taken a threatening step towards her. It was bad enough enduring LaCroix’s venomous words towards my mate, let alone bloody forcing my beast back when the Prince threatened to rip her tongue out…but a threatening step with the intention of causing harm to Elena…that would be my undoing. My beast would push through and I’d let him, claws out ready to tear any threat that came near our mate into mincemeat.
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