CLAIM THE CORE
He was naked.
Three hulking shadows loomed over him, their faces indistinct in the dim light of the room. Not Serena’s hired men, he realized with a jolt of terror, but the Thorne brothers. Their eyes, once keen and intelligent, were now glazed, pupils dilated, a primal hunger burning in their depths. They moved with a predatory slowness, their powerful bodies radiating an intense, dangerous heat.