Chapter 0441

“What is it?” Sinclair asks, his smile fading.

“I trust Jackson,” Hank murmurs, still lost in his thoughts. “But I…do not think that the Community is done with him.” He blinks and looks at his sovereigns, shaking his head with worry. “A boy like that – an incredible physical specimen? They will be angry to have lost him. I’m not a gambler, but if I were it’d be a pretty sure bet to say that they’re going to try to get him back.”

“Get him back,” Ella says with a frown, “how would they do that?”

“I don’t know,” Hank says with a shrug. “Come and…..snatch him, or something?”

Ella just laughs, shaking her head and glancing up at her mate, the only person who is a rival for Jackson in terms of sheer physical prowess. “Trust me, Hank,” she says, dry, “no one is making Jackson do anything he doesn’t want to do. Except maybe Ariel.”

“Or you,” Sinclair murmurs, stroking a hand down the length of Ella’s hair. “He’s very devoted to you too, love.”