Blaze “What a mess!” Mark murmurs as we enter the lower dungeon where Yolanda and Philip are being kept. I shake my head at the mess that was once Yolanda. “Ava certainly showed Yolanda what for.” I hear the pride in Michael’s voice. I brought my eldest sons down here with me because I wanted them to see that Ava doesn’t need them running around and fixing everything. My daughter is not a woman to be messed with. Ava is stronger than we all gave her credit for. Besides, women are not as weak as we men like to believe. My mate proved that many years ago when she ended the lives of two women who threatened Mark. Mark was our only child at the time, and Rain’s psycho birth mother and a woman obsessed with Rain’s father kidnapped Mark. Rain’s aunt brought Mark home to us, but those women