CHAPTER 17

WARNING: R18+ please read at your own risk.

Zhe's POV

The hum of the engine was steady, but the tension inside Caleb’s sleek black car was anything but.

We hadn't said much since leaving the café.

Hindi na ako nagulat nang makita si Caleb na nag-aantay sa labas. Pagkalabas ko ng cafe ay nasa labas siya—clearly waiting for someone.

He just told me to get in—and I did, without a word. He looked too intense, too quiet, like a man on the edge. And I... I was already burning from the storm earlier in the morning, where he ripped my panty and the the steamy scene in my office.

But the way his hand gripped the wheel... how his knuckles whitened as he glanced at me from time to time—I knew something was about to snap.

Then it did.

At the red light, without warning, he pulled the car into a quiet, shadowed street—away from the traffic, away from the world.

I turned to him. “Caleb, what are you—”

“Get in the backseat,” he ordered, voice low. Raw.

My pulse spiked. “What—here? Caleb, we—”

“Now.”