BREE’S POV My stomach drops. He isn’t bluffing. He is actually going to do it. I glance frantically at the others, expecting someone, anyone, to intervene. But Gideon just breathes out a dark, highly entertained chuckle, slouching deeper into the couch. Beside him, Caspian completely ignores the impending psychopathic violence, calmly reaching out to pick up a glass of bourbon as if Kaiven is just stepping out to check the mail. Neither of them gives a single damn. I have no choice. I launch myself off the leather cushion and lunge after Kaiven, my hands grabbing onto his thick, tattooed bicep to physically pull him back. It is a completely futile, laughable effort—he is a literal wall of solid muscle who could crush me with two fingers—but the absolute second my skin makes contact

