Bab 110: CHAPTER 110 The Threat

　　~ CASIMIR ~

　　Mind still open to Rake and Jesse so they'd hear every word, I stepped forward to put myself right in front of Khush. The male was larger than me by at least fifty pounds. If we'd been men, I would have needed to use skill rather than brute strength to defeat him.

　　But we were not men. And he did not stand a chance.

　　Snapping a thread of compulsion at him like a whiplash, I smiled as Khush's eyes glazed, then he blinked and focused on me again.

　　"Tell me the things you're holding back-the things you think I wouldn't approve of, or that protect someone else's interests," I said casually. I kept the others in the room ignorant to the conversation, their ears stopped so they wouldn't hear it, or move from their places.