“You said that already. Gabriel, I need to know where Cas is so I can go get her. We can deal with the floggings later.” Lucas was trying hard not to show how on edge he was. He already felt sick at the thought of Axel being incarcerated and Gabriel’s ominous hints certainly hadn't helped to put him at ease. Lucas was starting to suspect that whatever Gabriel was hiding had something to do with Cassandra’s safety, and that was the one thing Lucas worried about most. At the back of his mind he knew he would have to relay all of this back to his brother. Axel was so consumed with protecting Cassandra, he would probably go ballistic. Axel on a possessive hormone–fueled rampage was bad enough when he had space to pace around and throw things. It was going to be a hundred times worse when

