Chapter 22

MADDOX

There was someone that had been absent for days. It was really fucking pathetic that my eyes searched for her in any room that I entered. She had quickly become a splatter of intrigue on the backdrop of my day.

What was it about her that pulled me in each and every time? Nobody else could catch my attention like she could. The crazy thing was that she did not even have to try because it just naturally happened.

From the moment that my eyes connected with hers, I was a fucking goner. But she could not be mine. I would never be able to keep her. Just thinking that was enough to feel like a dagger was dug into my chest. Nah. She deserved someone better than me. My old man had a fondness of destroying his toys. Perhaps, if she had come into my life before he made me into this, we could have worked it out.

Pain, adrenaline, and sex. Once upon a time, those three things were the only ones that would reach through the haze of my life and pull me out of it for fresh air. It helped me ge