~ASHTON~

I fucking hated it.

The second I saw her on the dance floor with that guy, I completely lost it.

I was jealous. For a woman who wasn't my mate. For my stepsister. A woman who was supposed to be family and nothing more.

It made no sense. It wasn't allowed. And yet every time his hand settled on her lower back, every time she let him pull her closer, the urge to cross the room and rip him away from her nearly choked me.

I should have been focused on Ariel. That was the ...