LOGINWe couldn't stop kissing, our mouths were desperate and our hands were everywhere and everything else was fading except this need.My anger was still alive, alive and burning hot under my skin. But the want was hotter, and it's literally consuming everything, including myself.His hands went to my blouse, and carefully, his fingertip met the button, then he pushed forward and stated fumbling it desperately with his hand.I helped, unbuttoned it faster, shrugging it off, and tossing it aside.His hands found my bra clasp, unhooked it and pulled it off.My breasts were naked, and then he broke the kiss and looked at me in this eyes. Before I could even get a good view of his yes, he moved his head lower and his mouth feel on my boobs immediately.He started sucking, sucking it harder than usual, and I gasped at the intensity.I pushed him back and hard onto the bed.He position himself well and I climbed over him, taking control because I needed control of something.I looked down as hi
I stood there, and just started at him after all what he's just said and the silence was so heavy I could barely breathe."I only want you."The words were still hanging in the air between us but they weren't enough. They couldn't erase what I'd seen.My legs gave out and I collapsed back onto my bed. I literally fell, it was as if all the strength I had left my body at once.The sobs came harder now.Two nights of no sleep. One day of complete devastation. I was breaking completely.He watched me helpless. The guilt on his face was destroying him but all I could was cry right now.He moved toward me. It was like he wanted to comfort me even though he was the reason I needed comforting in the first place.He sat on the bed beside me, close but not touching yet. Just there."I can't stop seeing it," I said through my sobs. "I can just get it out of my head. You with her. Two of you smiling, and the doubts and all the thoughts running through my mind, even though I knew I was very right
“I'm sorry."He said the words and just stood there in my doorway like what he just said was something toxic, something so toxic that he knew it. Toxic like it could kill me if I breathed it in.I stared at him, at his face showing guilt and desperation and something that looked like pain. At his clothes he's in."You're sorry," I said, very flat, and emotionless, and nust repeating his words back to him."Scarlett—""Don't." My hand came up between us. "Don't say my name like that."His face crumbled slightly but I didn't care. I couldn't care, not when I could still see him through that restaurant window smiling at someone else.I stepped back from the doorway. Into my room, and he followed even though I didn't invite him, but I'd expected that.I closed the door behind him, and we just stood apart from ourselves. I was by the window, and he stood there by the door. The distance between us felt both too much and not enough.Right now, with all that going on in my mind, being with h
I couldn't stop crying.The tears just kept streaming down my face, and my chest was heaving with sobs. I didn't see this coming, me breaking apart in my car on some random side street.The image wouldn't fucking leave my mind. His eyes meeting mine through that restaurant window. The way he looked at the car, at me. The moment he knew I'd caught him.He knew now. I saw. I knew. We couldn't pretend anymore.My phone buzzed on the passenger seat.I didn't want to look. Couldn't handle it. But I looked anyway.Three texts. All from him.My hands were shaking as I picked up the phone, and opened the messages.Jax: "Scarlett'Just my name. Sent right after I drove past. Two minutes ago.Jax: "I can explain"Could he? Could he really explain what I'd just seen?Jax: "I'm coming home. We need to talk"Dread settled heavy in my stomach. I'd have to face him. I'd have to listen to whatever explanation he thought would make this okay.I couldn't stay here on this random side street crying for
I sat there alone with the engine off, just breathing, and trying to make my brain work properly.Nina had driven away minutes ago after making sure I was okay. I am not okay. But at least, I'm alone now and that was something.The silence in the car was deafening. Just me and my spinning thoughts that wouldn't fucking stop.What I knew: We were alone together in the morning. And maybe, just maybe he had to go to work, or maybe a work meeting. That wasn't a work meeting.Or maybe the meeting ended early and he ran into her, and he knew her, they knew themselves, or maybe he wanted to grab lunch and they innocently met there.The way they'd looked together. It was very comfortable, very comfortable and easy, this isn't accidental. That was planned.Or maybe it was a business lunch and it was still work, and it just looked like that from the outside.But that restaurant, that atmosphere, that intimacy, or semi-intimacy....That couldn't be work.Who was she? Colleague? Client? Friend? E
I couldn't move.I could feel Nina beside me, could feel people walking past. But I was frozen.My eyes locked on that window. On that table. On him. On them.I couldn't look away even though every instinct screamed that I should. Even though it was killing me. I just kept staring."Scarlett?" Nina's voice sounded distant. It was like a voice from underwater. "Scarlett, you okay?"I could see everything through the glass.The table near the window. It was a very good view. A view of two people sitting across from each other. Two people on a date. Jax and a lady I'd never seen before.They were positioned very close. The feel between them was so very intimate. That kind of close that happens at a two-person table when you actually want to be there. This is not work, or acquaintance or friendship.Just like he was me and wanted to make me regret looking, he started leaning forward slightly. He was so engaged in whatever the hell they were talking about. His body language was so very eas
I was still in his arms with my head resting on his chest, but my body had gone completely tense."I'm sorry." My head replayed the words over and over again.I didn't even know what to say, or not say, because that was the least expected and probably, very unnecessary thing. And the words just hun
I opened my door before he even knocked and stepped out into the hallway. Then I met him there.He was standing a few feet away and stopped walking as soon as he saw my door open.We looked at each other for a moment, and neither of us spoke at first.He was still wearing his work clothes, a button
I was just sitting there now knowing anything to say at all when the silence finally broke. Jax spoke first, and his voice was very calm and very easy as he talked.."Oh. Yeah. I was helping Scarlett with something." He sounded very casual and normal, like there was not part of
I had a perfect view of everything through the glass.Jax and the lady were standing in the middle of the playroom, with the old toys lined up on the shelves behind them. There was a small table nearby, and a dated rug covered the floor under their feet.She looked around the ro







