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Chapter 57

Penulis: Layla K
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-08 23:24:42

Alpha Jaxon:

I didn't sleep.

Emberlyn's breathing had evened out within minutes, slow and steady against my chest, her ginger curls fanned across the pillow. The room was dim and quiet and I lay there watching the ceiling with her tucked into my side, replaying the afternoon on a loop I couldn't shut off.

The smoke poured out of the building. The doors that wouldn't open. The seventeen seconds it took me to find her on the floor.

Seventeen seconds. I had counted.

I had moved faster than I shoul
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    Emberlyn:We smelled of each other.That was the first thing I noticed when my brain finally caught up with my body. His scent was all over me and mine was all over him and the sheets were warm and tangled and his mouth was already back on my chest like the last hour hadn't happened at all.His tongue circled my nipple slowly and I exhaled, my fingers sliding into his hair the way they always did now, like they had learned the route and didn't need directions anymore. He tugged with his teeth, soft and deliberate, and the sharp pull of it went straight down my spine."Who was she?" I asked facing the ceiling.His mouth didn't stop. "Who was who?”"The woman. Earlier. At your place.”He lifted his head just enough to look at me, lips still brushing my skin. "Business partner." Then his mouth closed on my nipple again and I lost my train of thought for a moment."Your business partner was at your house. On a Saturday.”"Mm.” He went to the other side, his tongue swirling slowly before

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    Emberlyn: The other side of the bed was cold when I woke up. I reached over without thinking and felt the empty space beside me. He was gone. I already knew he would be. We both knew the rules of this thing, whatever it was, and one of the clearest ones was that nobody could find out. The longer he stayed the higher the risk and Jaxon Sullivan did not take unnecessary risks. I understood that. I did. It didn't stop the small hollow feeling that sat in my chest when I pressed my palm flat against the cold sheet where he had been. I lay there for a moment, staring at the ceiling, letting the quiet settle around me. The morning light was coming in pale through the blinds and somewhere down the hall a cart was rolling and a monitor was beeping and the hospital was waking up the way hospitals do, slow and indifferent to whatever anyone was feeling. I sat up carefully. My chest still ached when I breathed too deep but it was better than yesterday. Manageable. Everything was a little bet

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    Jaxon:She tasted exactly the way I remembered.I had told myself it didn't matter. That the distance of the past two weeks had been necessary and manageable and that I was in full control of every decision I made including the ones that involved Emberlyn Vale. I had believed that right up until the moment her lips touched mine and every carefully maintained boundary dissolved like it had never existed at all.I kissed her back.My hands found her waist and I lifted her off the floor in one clean motion, setting her on the kitchen counter without breaking the kiss. She made a small sound against my mouth and her hands went to my shirt immediately, fingers curling into the fabric like she was trying to pull me closer and keep me there.I pulled back just enough to look at her.Her lips were swollen, her brown eyes were dark, and her chest was rising and falling faster than it had been thirty seconds earlier. She looked exactly like trouble and I had absolutely no intention of stopping.

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    Emberlyn:My mother left at noon.She had fussed over me for the better part of the morning, rearranging things that didn't need rearranging and checking on me every twenty minutes like she was afraid I would disappear if she stopped looking. She made me eat a full breakfast and then sat across from me watching me eat it, her hands wrapped around her mug, her eyes doing that thing where they said everything she wasn't saying out loud. When she finally picked up her bag to leave for her shift I had to stop myself from sighing with relief."Rest," she said at the door."I will," I said back.She gave me one last look that communicated she didn't fully believe me, and then she was gone.The apartment became silent.I sat on the couch for a while, gazing at nothing in particular. Mila was in cheer practice, and would not return until late in the afternoon. Kim was at work, and after her first two text messages to check in with me, she had that pep in her step that I knew she would want to

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    Jaxon:I had walked out of that meeting before Carver could say another word.He knew what REX was. He knew what I had built and what it stood for and if he thought for one second that I would let my company become a corridor for hard drugs he had fundamentally misunderstood who he was dealing with. REX had started with nothing. An empty office, one contract, and more enemies than allies. I had built it into something clean and legitimate and untouchable and I was not about to watch it become something I couldn't look at.There were lines I had drawn for myself a long time ago. Lines that existed not because of strategy or calculation but because of the kind of man I had decided to be when I had nothing. Crossing them for Carver was not something I was willing to consider regardless of what it cost me.Carver could find another way in. That particular door was closed.By afternoon I got back home, sitting behind my desk in the home office, with the city spread out below the window.T

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