Calvin’s POVHer voice had hesitated on the phone. I heard it, the falter, the uncertainty. She almost said no. For a second, my chest had tightened with rage. After everything, after all I’d done, after all the time I’d spent being there for her… she still doubted me?But then she said yes.And the tension that had coiled inside me eased, replaced by a satisfaction so deep it nearly made me smile. She was coming with me. She still listened, still obeyed.I arrived at her apartment early, because waiting wasn’t an option. She opened the door, casual clothes clinging to her in ways she didn’t even realize. Shorts. A jacket. Sneakers. God, even dressed like that, she was stunning. She always was.She didn’t see it, didn’t understand what she did to me, how hard I’d worked to protect her, to keep her from the wolves that circled her life. Derek. Blackwood. Even Allison, with her quiet suspicion, whispering poison in Jacqueline’s ear.“Not on you,” I told her when she dismissed my complim
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