Jaxx’s Point Of View

"I won’t stop you."

The words hung in the air between us, heavy, final, a challenge and a surrender all at once. I watched her… Elena Sinclair, the woman who had burrowed under my skin like a fucking splinter I couldn’t dig out… stand there, wide-eyed, her chest rising and falling in quick, shallow breaths. For a moment, I thought I’d scared her off. That I’d pushed too far, demanded too much, been too raw, too real, too me.

A sigh clawed its way out of my ...