Ascension Saga (Interstellar Brides): Book 8

“Your mate is fine.” He raised a brow, crossed his arms and laughed. “I thought Faith was vengeful, leaving me covered with just a small towel. But Destiny didn’t bother to cover you at all.”

“Stop talking and release me. I know where she’s going. She’s going to get herself killed.”

“She’s fine. They are, all three of our mates, well-protected,” Leo said.

“You can’t know that, let me up.”

Thor moved closer, raked his gaze down my body. Oh, it was a clinical look, not something I’d seen on Destiny’s face. I wasn’t modest, not at all, but I didn’t need Thor and Leo to see my hard cock. As he inspected the bindings on my wrists, he actually laughed. “Oh, she’s good. Remind me not to get on Princess Destiny’s bad side.”

Fuck.

“I’m going to have to cut these off.” He looked at Leo. “Do you have a blade?”

Leo tossed a dagger to Thor, who caught it in midair as if the motion were as natural to him as breathing. A businessman? Right. I’d have to investigate my new brother a bit more thoroughly in future. “Hold still. Destiny will have my hide if I cut you.”

“Hurry up. I have to get to her.”

Leo crossed his arms and leaned his hip against the tall bed as Thor just looked at my restraints. “They’re with my father and the queen’s guard. They’re ahead of us by an hour, but they’re well-protected.”

“How did they get you?” I asked. Thor made no move to release me from the restraints and I wasn’t too eager to beg. That was how I’d gotten in this mess in the first place with Destiny.

“Our mates stunned us with ion blasters and locked us in the armory,” Leo said.

I grunted a response. It was amusing, but I was still naked and cuffed to the bed.

“But you,” Thor began, spinning the blade in his palm, in no apparent hurry to set me free.

“Stop playing games, Thor.”

He grinned at me, the fucker. “I think I should take a few moments to appreciate the irony. Payback’s a bitch, isn’t it?”

I frowned, then remembered. He’d been stunned at his family’s mountain retreat and brought to the palace. Under my command—and the princess’s bidding—he’d been stripped naked and restrained to Faith’s bed. I’d watched them tie him up and I’d walked out the door.

He’d been there for hours. I hadn’t thought much of it, once we’d left him there. He had been Faith’s to punish and not my concern. Only now did I fully appreciate the torment he must have suffered. “My apologies, Thor. I was only following orders.”

Leo chuckled. “Trinity did leave orders to set you free.” He glanced at Thor, who shrugged.

“Did she give a time frame for the deed?” Thor asked.

“No, I don’t believe she did.” Leo was not helping my mood to improve.

Yeah, payback was a bitch. “Fine, you’ve both made your point. But it’s your fault I’m here to begin with. You were the fools who decided to keep the truth from our mates in the first place.”

“You agreed freely,” Thor said.

I sighed. I had. Damn me straight to eternal hell. “I did. I never said I wasn’t a complete idiot when it comes to my mate. Now will you let me up?”

Thor grinned. “No begging?”

I narrowed my eyes, hoping he’d notice I wasn’t amused.

He sighed. “Fine. Fine.” He had me free quickly, then reached down, grabbed my clothes and tossed them at me.

“Time to go get our mates,” he said, heading for the door, Leo on his heels.

I tugged on my shirt. That’s right. Time to get Destiny, keep her safe, then… fuck, I had no idea what. I probably would need to grovel. A lot.

I’d said I would not beg, but even that was a lie. For Destiny, I would do anything.