Chapter 127

Jordan.

I wanted to stay with her. And hold her.

The startling need had crackled through my chest.

So I had forced myself to walk away. Now I stood in the middle of my study staring out of the window almost in a daze. My

breathing was still uneven, my heart racing, and my body thrumming with the afterglow pleasure and heat. What the

fuck just happened?

I had fucked so many women in my life, all as beautiful and some even more beautiful than her, but none of those encounters even vaguely resembled what had just happened.

For fucks sake I had unraveled like a dropped old movie reel.

It was the closest thing to a Nala cle I had ever experienced in years.

What was it about her? Why did she have this effect on me?

She was just a dumb broad. Dumb enough to get entangled with a fool like Salvatore and a monster like me. But from the first moment I had laid eyes on her, something inside of me had stirred to life. And I had wanted to see what it was.

Now, I knew. Now I fucking knew.

I had to