Axel
Conversation flowed a few feet away from me, but I barely listened. Shahar and I were in his house, yet my mind wasn’t here.
The dull bruises on my body were the only remnants of the battle, but my recovery had been unnaturally fast.
No one could explain it.
But I knew. Whether I wanted to admit it or not, it had something to do with Eve.
She was the last person I should be thinking about—especially while sitting in the house of her boyfriend.
I tried to push her image away, but it refused to leave me.
Her eyes, filled with lust and pleasure. The way her lips parted when she came.
I felt like the devil for wanting the one woman I had no right to want.
A voice near the front door snapped me back to reality until I noticed Shahar deep in conversation with an architect and two land acquisition officers.
"Are you building another house?" I asked from where I was seated.
He turned to me with a grin."Nope. But take a wild guess."
I rolled my eyes. "I don’t have time for that. Just tell
