The air of anger and resentment inside of the building was palpable, so much so that it settled on Jaxx’s skin in the form of a cold sweat that made her hair stand on end. Here, she had the one person that despised her since they were children holding the only two people she had ever been in love with captive.

Despite her best efforts, she had managed to fall into Jessup’s cleverly laid trap, and that fact alone made her blood boil. There would be no going back from this ...