His Moonsilver Mate (Abby and Kade) novel Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

Sloane

the next evening, I had stopped pretending I wasn’t waiting for him.

Malachi hadn’t come.

Not after they took Abby away. Not that night. Not the following morning.

He had sent food. Clean clothes. Two women to check the bruise on my cheek and the raw skin

around my throat where the collar had burned me.

That was all.

Apparently, bringing Abby straight into his hands had earned me exactly what everything else did in this place.

Nothing.

I paced from the bed to the locked door and back again.

Rhea had been silent since they put the collar on me, and the emptiness where she should have been

made the room feel even smaller.

I told myself I was angry because Malachi still didn’t trust me.

That was true.

I told myself I was angry because Jax had been believed over me.

Also true.

I did not think about the fact that Malachi had slept with me and then gone straight back to treating me like something useful only when he needed it.

That part was harder to admit.

The lock turned.

I looked up. For one stupid second, relief came first.

Then Jax walked in, and it disappeared.

“What are you doing here?”

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He ignored me and looked around the room instead. His attention moved over the fire, the half-finished dinner, the clean clothes folded across the chair.

“Nice.”

I folded my arms. “Did you come here to admire the furniture?”

“No.” His gaze returned to me. “You still think you’re special.”

I almost laughed. “I’m wearing a collar that burns me every time I try to use my wolf. I’m not

confused about my situation.”

“No?” He came closer. “Your master has his new pet now.”

Anger stirred beneath my skin. “He isn’t my master.”

Jax’s grin widened. “You keep telling yourself that.”

I held his gaze.

He looked pleased with himself. “Boss spent a long time looking for that silver little thing. Now he’s got her.”

My heartbeat picked up. “What does he want with her?”

Jax tilted his head. “You really don’t know?”

“No.”

“That must hurt.”

I hated him.

He saw it and enjoyed it.

“You worked so hard to earn your place here.” His gaze dropped deliberately to the nightdress. “Very

hard.”

My face went hot. “Get out.”

He laughed. “Did you think climbing into his bed made you untouchable?”

I took one step toward him. “I said get out.”

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Jax leaned closer. “How long do you think before he gets bored?”

refused to step back.

“How long before he hands you over to the rest of us?”

“Keep dreaming.”

He laughed again. “That sounds almost like a challenge.”

Then his hand closed around my arm.

I reacted immediately. “Let go.”

He tightened his grip.

The collar warmed against my throat. I forced myself to stop pulling before it punished me properly.

Jax noticed. His eyes dropped to the metal.

“There’s the problem.” He tugged me closer. “All that attitude, and you still can’t do anything.”

I stared at him.

A thought came quietly.

Dangerous enough that I almost dismissed it.

Almost.

Malachi had made one thing very clear since the moment I arrived.

He might call me useless. He might tell me I meant nothing. He might lock me away, collar me, threaten me, and refuse to admit the bond mattered.

But he watched anyone who came near me. He had reacted when I said mate. He had reacted when

Jax accused me. He had reacted when I touched him.

Maybe I had been trying to make him admit it the wrong way.

I looked at Jax’s hand on my arm. Then back at his face. “Is this what you needed?”

His smile faltered slightly. “What?”

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His expression changed. “Careful.”

?” I let my gaze move over him. “You’re the one who keeps talking about how little I matter to him.” I leaned closer. “So why are you afraid to do anything unless he’s somewhere else?”

That was reckless. I knew it even as I said it, and I probably should have stopped there.

Instead I smiled. “Maybe you know exactly how much I matter.”

The blow came so fast I barely saw it.

My head snapped sideways. Pain burst through my cheek.

Before I recovered, he shoved me backward. My hip struck the edge of the table and sent a glass crashing to the floor. I caught myself against the wall.

Jax came after me. “You think you’re clever.”

I tasted blood. “I think you’re scared of him.”

His face hardened.

Good.

I wanted him angry. I wanted him stupid. I wanted Malachi to walk through that door and see exactly what Jax thought he could do to me.

I just hadn’t expected Jax to hit that hard.

His fist caught me lower this time. I folded instinctively. He grabbed the back of my neck and shoved me down. My knees struck stone.

The collar punished me instantly. Agony tore through my spine. I cried out.

Jax laughed. “Not so feisty now?”

I tried to get up. He kicked my arm out from under me. I hit the floor on my side.

For several seconds, I couldn’t breathe. Fear finally pushed through the anger. This had gone too far. I had pushed him too far.

Jax crouched beside me and caught my jaw. “You wanted to know if I was scared.”

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“Go to hell.”

Ne twisted harder and leaned closer. “You really thought sleeping with him made you safe?”

I turned my head enough to look at him. “No.” My voice shook. “But I think hurting me is going to get you killed.”

Jax laughed under his breath”Still think Boss is coming to save you?”

He dragged me partly upright by my hair.

My vision blurred.

Then the door opened.

Jax froze.

So did I.

Malachi stood in the doorway. His gaze moved over the room. The broken glass. Blood on my mouth. Jax’s hand in my hair. The way my other arm was twisted behind me.

Something in Malachi’s face went completely still.

Jax released me immediately. “Boss-”

Malachi crossed the room. Jax barely managed to stand before he hit him. The force sent him into the wall. He tried to recover. Malachi didn’t let him.

Jax raised both hands. “Listen-

Malachi caught him by the throat and drove him back against the stone. “You touched her.”

Jax’s face lost color. “She started it.”

Malachi tightened his grip.

“She wanted me to.”

My stomach turned. “That’s not ”

Malachi looked at me once. Whatever he saw in my face ended the conversation.

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before letting the body fall. It hit the floor heavily.

I stared at it. My breathing came too fast.

Malachi looked at me. The fury in his face shifted, but it didn’t disappear. He crossed the room and

crouched in front of me.

“Sloane.”

“I’m fine.” My voice didn’t sound fine.

His gaze moved over my face, the blood at my mouth, my wrist, the way I was holding one arm against my ribs.

“You’re not.”

I tried to push myself upright. Pain tore through my side hard enough to make my arm buckle.

Malachi caught me before I hit the floor again.

“I can walk-”

He hauled me up against him before I finished. There was nothing gentle about it. One arm went behind my back, the other beneath my knees, and suddenly I was off the floor and pressed against his chest as he carried me out of the room.

Two guards stood in the corridor. Their faces changed when they saw Jax’s body crumpled on the

floor.

Malachi stopped in front of them. “Who let him in?”

Neither answered.

His voice dropped. “Who?”

One of them swallowed. “He said you sent him.”

His gaze moved between them, cold and deliberate, before shifting to the two guards farther down

the corridor.

“Take them both.”

“Boss-”

Malachi didn’t raise his voice. “Now.”

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