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“I know, and I missed you at lunch.”

He wasn’t going to complain. If she missed him, he was on the right track. He wanted her so much, but he wasn’t willing to rush her, not until she was ready for him.

Watching her come, saying his name, Gideon felt whole when he was with her. She was the light to his darkness, the reason for his very existence. The longer he stayed with her, the more complete he felt.

The love he had for her was getting stronger, and there was no way he was walking away. not from her, not from anything.

She was his entire life.

Chapter Eight

“Since when did flowers get you all mushy?” Owen asked.

Emma watched as her brother stroked one of the rose petals. “Since I got some and they arrived today.” With a little card telling her how much he missed her.

She missed him too.

The other night, after sucking his cock, she didn’t know if she’d let him know too much of just how much she was missing him. It wasn’t even about what he could to her body either. It was so much more than that.

“What are you two doing here? Don’t you have work to do?”

“We do, but you see, we’ve got a bit of a problem.” Wyatt gripped the back of his neck, looking uncomfortable.

“What problem?” She looked between her two brothers. “Why do I feel this problem involves me?”

Again, Wyatt and Owen shared a look.

“Just tell me.”

“We got a call from Gabriel.”

Just hearing her oldest brother’s name irritated her. Since he found out he was a Denton, he’d all but abandoned them.

Of course, Wyatt and Owen didn’t see that. They still worked with him. “Just tell me.”

“Maddox has demanded punishment for Gideon.”

“Wait? What?”

“His son threatened his life, and now it has to be handled like a family. Gabriel wanted us to keep you here.”

“Punishment for threatening him. I don’t understand.” She ran fingers through her hair, feeling like she was falling apart.

“The Dentons are handling his punishment,” Owen said.

“Gabriel called us and told us to take you back home.”

She shook her head. “No. Take me to him.”

“We can’t do that.”

Emma glared at both of her brothers. “Listen to me closely. You will take me to Gideon right now. There’s no reason they should be punishing him.”

“It’s family business.”

“Clearly, you both felt I had a right to know because you wouldn’t have told me otherwise. Now get your heads out of your asses and take me to him.” She grabbed her jacket. “Don’t even try to pretend that you don’t know where it is. I know that’s bullshit.”

“Let’s go,” Owen said.

She didn’t question them until they got into the car and were out on the road.

“Why did you tell me?” she asked.

“Gabriel told us not to.”

“So? I thought you liked playing the minion for him.”

Owen put a hand to his chest. “That hurts. We’re not his minions.”

“You were going to do as you’re told.”

Wyatt snorted. “If we were going to do as we were told, we wouldn’t have said anything and just taken you out to dinner.”

“Gabriel needs to realize that just because he has a better last name doesn’t make us any less. We’re not the ones at fault for our last name. He can try to make himself believe he’s a Denton, but he’s also a Colton. He was raised a Colton, and there’s a monster inside there that has nothing to do with a Denton.”

She didn’t dispute it.

Gabriel, being the oldest of them all, had been through hell with their father. Of course, now they knew it wasn’t really Gabriel’s father, but it didn’t mean for a second that their brother hadn’t been turned.

There was a darkness within him that would scare the shit out of the Dentons, she was sure of it.

“So, you and Gideon didn’t see that one coming,” Owen said.

“Are you going to marry him? Have lots of kids?”

“Shut up.”

“Do you even love him? How does that whole legacy thing work? Do you feel connected to him as well?” Owen asked.

“Can we not talk about that right now? Can we just get to Gideon?” She didn’t want to talk about the legacy.

Gideon never did, and that was the way she liked it.

Running fingers through her hair, she felt her heart racing as they came upon an old abandoned warehouse. She saw Gideon’s car though, as well as Gabriel’s.

She also noticed several other cars that she recognized.

Anger filled her.

They were supposed to be brothers.

Family.

Climbing out of the car, she didn’t give a shit about the consequences. She only needed to see Gideon, to stop others from hurting him.

With her heart pounding, hands clammy, she found the entrance of the warehouse. Maddox had given her several codes in the time she’d worked for him, proving her loyalty to the family.

Typing in the code she had seen him cover up for warehouses, she smiled as the door opened. She had one hell of a memory, and it had come in handy today.