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Chapter 50

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VENUS

“Venus,” Aaron said calmly. Too calmly.

But he didn’t reach for me.

No—his hand shot out, iron-fast, latching around Dorian’s wrist, right where it had touched my arm. The grip was brutal—veins straining, knuckles whitening.

“You’ve always had an affinity for things that aren’t yours, haven’t you?”

Velvet over steel. A tone that promised pain beneath the polish.

Dorian’s grin didn’t even falter. That infuriating, cold amusement stayed pinned in place.

“She didn’t seem to mind,” he shrugged smug and cruel. A predator enjoying the tease.

I glared.

“I do.”

Aaron didn’t even glance at me. His eyes stayed locked on Dorian’s—glacier meeting fire.

“Touch her again,” he murmured—low, lethal—“and you won’t have anything to jerk off with.”

A flicker, just the barest crack in Dorian’s grin. Subtle, but there. Enough.

Aaron let go, deliberately, like casting off something filthy. A dismissal. A warning.

Then he turned to me, gaze burning.

“Come.”

Not a request. A command.

And I moved. Becau
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