Xavier’s POV

“Control wasn’t slipping anymore. It was gone, ripped out of my hands the second I saw Zayne standing too close to her.”

I’d built my life on control But jealousy was the one enemy I never learned to fight, it crept in uninvited, lit fires I couldn’t put out, and left me standing in the ruins.

The image of Zayne standing too close to Daphne in that boardroom wouldn’t leave me.

His voice defending her. His eyes burning with something that had no right to exist ...