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“Yes. I felt it. This Kiss. It’s real.”

My shoulders sagged with relief.

“Then you’ll let me give you the power you need and you’ll let me go?”

“You’ll give me your power,” Dreth said with a nod. “But you won’t be giving it to anyone else ever again. Especially Kren.”

That lump of biological-metal hanging between his legs stiffened as he stamped across the room and threw himself on top of me.

8

KREN

Dreth.

That fat, useless turd.

He’d taken Ivy.

What did he think he was doing?

According to Lily, he left with Ivy about fifteen minutes ago. Then she suggested I choose one of the other girls, who looked up and smiled at me hopefully.

I wasn’t interested.

I had chosen my mate. And right now, she was with another fighter.

A two-bit piss-poor fighter I had beaten on countless occasions.

My blood was on fire and I was consumed with anger and hate. And more than a little jealousy.

There was only one thing I could do. But it wasn’t going to end well.

I approached the guards and turned as if I was about to head down the hall back to my cell the way I had done countless times before.

The first guard stepped forward to escort me. I used his momentum against him, slamming my fist into his helmet so hard it dented and collapsed in on itself.

The second guard raised his shock rifle, but I was ready for it, snapped out with a kick, and struck at his throat.

The trouble with having fighters as your prisoners was they got stronger and faster the longer they were incarcerated.

At least, the good ones did.

And I was the best.

The second guard clutched his hands to his throat and fell to his knees. I brought my knee up and smashed him in the face.

He sailed back and collapsed on the floor.

The first guard reached for his shock rifle.

I swung my foot up and caught his chin, laying him out cold.

I didn’t pick up their weapons. That would only cause more trouble. If I was armed, the other guards would come down hard on me, shocking me to within an inch of my life.

Or beyond.

Whereas if I was without any weapons…

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