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don’t you get started on the steaks. I’ll clean some potatoes and get them in the oven, then let her out. How long’s she been in?”
    “Since about twenty minutes after you left.”
    Including the time I’d spent driving before going to the hotel, and then my stop by the store… over four hours. Shit .
    I cleaned the potatoes, wrapped them in aluminum foil, and had them in the oven in less than two minutes, and then made my way to her cage.
    Bash had used our biggest ball gag, and secured it to the sides of the cage so she had no choice but to keep her face on the plastic floor. She hadn’t wet herself, thankfully, or her face would’ve been in it. She was probably about to pop, though.
    I released her face, first, and then cut the ropes tying her knees to the side of the cage. Bash had intentionally situated her, and the cage, so I’d see her pussy and ass, fully spread and open as I walked in the door. Bastard .
    Her arms were restrained behind her back, and another rope pulled her spine down, forcing it into an arch.
    I coached her through backing out of the cage, but had to reach in and touch the sides of her bottom in order to cut the rope at her arms, and the one forcing her spine into an arch.
    She was so damned shaky as she finally made her way out, but I kept my mouth shut. She didn’t want my sympathy.
    I’d need to massage her arms and shoulders, get the blood flowing again, but first, I gingerly lifted her shaking body and carried her to the bathroom. She hurt so bad, and needed to go so bad, she peed without complaint while I held her up as she sat on the toilet. I was afraid she’d fall over if I let go.
    There’d been no tear streaks on her face when I released her, but now, she fell apart and finally cried.
    Nothing we’d done up till now had broken her, but Bash had managed.
    He came to the bathroom door, looked in, but I moved my body in front of her so he couldn’t see. “Watch the steaks, dude. What did she do to deserve the way you bound her?” I wanted to trust her, but I also wanted there to be a reason for Bash to have bound her. I didn’t want to lash out at my brother, but I wasn’t far from it.
    “I told you, she wanted to be alone. I warned her she’d have to be bound and confined, she said she didn’t care.”
    I nodded, relieved she hadn’t tried to escape again, but pissed that Bash had mistreated her for no current reason.
    Still shielding her so he couldn’t see her nakedness, I told him, “I’m gonna need Duke to swap you out with someone who can treat her objectively. I get why you’re pissed, Dawg’s my friend, too, but we’re trying to create a relationship where she’ll trust us and work for us, instead of against us, and I’m not sure this was a step in the right direction.” I took a breath and added, “Do you want to explain to Duke why you aren’t the best choice of guard over her, or should I?”
    “Yeah, and I’ll need to tell Duke she’s under your skin. You showered, but,” he inhaled, let it out with appreciation, “pretty obvious you’ve had a session with two women. Wasn’t aware you had pussy you could just drop by and fuck in Pigeon Forge. If you wanted her so bad you had to find pussy somewhere else, you aren’t exactly objective, either.”
    I let my gaze meet his, let him see my wolf, made sure he knew he’d just stepped over the line and there’d be a reckoning. I kept my voice light, though, as I told him, “Duke already knows. Feel free to tell him whatever you want. Now, if you can go check on the steaks and not burn them, please?”
    Ice wiped while my back was turned to her, and she stood behind me when Bash left. I moved to pick her up again, but she said, “I can walk.”
    Her voice was so soft, so meek, and I wanted to pummel Bash for doing this to her. Instead, I took my shirt off and offered it to her. She just glared at me, though, and walked around me and wobbled out of the bathroom on shaky legs she was fighting