*** Aiden looked around and all he could see was failure. He tried not to be infuriated by it, but the bitter reality was what pissed him off. Of the sixty-five women who Axel reported to have been held hostage in Congdon house, they were only able to rescue forty. Twenty-five women still remained, and Aiden counted that as failure on their part. They should have rescued all of them. He couldn’t fault Axel and the others, however. They had tried their best, and Aiden understood how difficult it had been for them. Luke had brought his full might down on them, and they had barely managed to escape with their heads still attached to their necks. Now he had forty women whom he didn’t know what to do with. And to top it all off, he had to deal with the fact that his mate was unconsciou

