***Author's Note: This chapter and the one directly after were one chapter but I had to break them in half due to word count. Both are in still in Cassius's POV****
"I know. I need you to explain to me why you had him locked up."
She lifted herself off my chest and narrowed her eyes at me. "I didn't have him locked up. I had him escorted back here and told the guards if he acted up to lock him up." She explained. "He caused a scene in the diner the girls and I were in. Ainsley was terrified, and he was trying to attack her friend. So I ordered him to calm down."
I laughed. "Ordered him?"
"Yeah. Look, I know how you feel about the mate bond, and normally I wouldn't have interfered, but I felt I had to do what I did to protect Ainsley and the other patrons in the
