“No! Stop it!”
Within a heartbeat, Marika got between them, shoving at their chests with her delicate little hands.
“Please no, don’t do this,” she begged, fear and concern on her lovely face.
Altav sucked a hard breath in, anger on his face as he yanked her into his arms protectively.
“We’re not doing this,” he snarled at the other male. “No payment in kind. She’s mine. Understand?”
Understand?”And with that, he threw her over his shoulder and strode from the room.
“What the hell are you doing?” Marika gasped in outrage. One moment she’d been standing there, trying to stop the two big men from killing each other, and the next Altav had growled and thrown her up over his shoulder like she was nothing more than a sack of potatoes.
She had a brief glimpse of surprised faces through th
