Zique continued to pad forward until he stood in front of Gabe. ‘Put her down, Gabe.’

‘No, you’ve done enough Zique, let the poor girl go.’

‘’I thought our affairs were none of your business.’

‘’It is now.’

‘Just put her down, Gabe; willingly to avoid getting hurt. I can’t believe you went against my orders and behind my back too.’

Gabe scoffed. ‘And I can’t believe you tried to mate somebody else despite the fact that your f*cking MATE was behind bars. You’ve gone right back to the old Zique.’ He took a step forward, his eyes calculative. ‘You don’t care about her, do you? You’re just holding onto to her because of your pride. She’s tired of it, she wants to get away now, she’s officially gone through too much because of you.’

‘How could you stand there and tell me that I don’t care when you damn well know that I do?’

‘If you really cared, you’d never think of hurting her like you had planned to tonight. Damion told me he stopped you and if it weren’t for him, then Kiara wouldn