"Can I talk to him?"
Yes! Ajax roared in my mind. Let me talk to mate! It wasn’t that I didn’t want him to. I just worried that he wouldn’t be able to control himself, that he might cross the boundaries she clearly needed. I won’t! he growled impatiently.
“Sure, you can,” I said with a sigh, already bracing myself. “But I can’t control him as much when I let him come forward like that.”
“He won’t hurt me, will he?” she asked, brows furrowing slightly, though the faint smile on her lips told me she already knew the answer. She knew, deep down, that no one would dare harm her in my presence—or Ajax’s, for that matter.
“Definitely not,” I assured her quickly, flashing a grin. “But he’s not exactly as much of a gentleman as I am.” I couldn’t help the teasing note in my voice, even as I hea
