Chapter

Eleven

Hawke

“All right gentlemen, I believe that concludes our business for the evening,” I announced, eager to be done with this conversation and return to Asher. If I hadn’t promised my father I’d meet with his men tonight, I would have told them to kindly go fuck themselves when they’d dared to interrupt my fervent seduction of the luscious Asher Callaway.

As it was, my skin crawled at the thought of leaving her out there alone. Unprotected while so many other men circled like vultures. I’d seen the way they looked at her, lusted after her. And while I’d be a hypocrite if I blamed them for it,...