CHAPTER 3I told myself it was for the promotion. I told myself a hundred times on the walk down that hallway: Get the names, get the shield, get out. But the second the cell door clanged shut behind me, every lie turned to ash on my tongue.Jax was already watching the door like he’d been counting my heartbeats from the other side. Shirt gone. Cuffs still on, but the chain between his wrists was long enough now someone had loosened it. Dangerous mercy. His chest rose and fell slow, inked skin gleaming under the single bulb, eyes black with hunger.“Tell me you’re not here to play good cop today,” he said, voice low and rough, like he’d spent the night growling my name in the dark.I couldn’t speak. My throat was too tight, my panties already ruined.He took one step. Then another. Until the heat of his bare skin licked across the front of my uniform.“Say it, Esmeralda,” he murmured, tilting my chin up with two fingers. “Say why you’re really here.”My lips parted. Nothing came o
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