“You punch like a b***h, brother. All those years of discipline, all those years of training, and that is the best you can do? No wonder you cling to her so desperately.
“No wonder you bare your teeth every time another man looks at her. You are afraid. Afraid that she will find out how weak you really are. Afraid she will see that I am everything you are not.”
I took a step forward, my fists clenched so tight the skin split across my knuckles. “You will shut your filthy mouth before I rip it from your face.”
But Daren only leaned off the pillar, chuckling through the blood that slid down his chin. His eyes flicked to Lyra, and his voice sank lower, slick and dangerous.
“The way I would touch her p***y, Damon, would not be the way you do. You take with violence because that is all yo
