The car hummed along the highway, city lights streaking past in soft blurs of neon and gold. Elias sat slumped in the passenger seat, his face pale under the glow of the dashboard. His lips still tingled from the kiss, rough, angry, and way too good. He kept touching them without thinking, then dropping his hand like it burned.Elara kept one hand on the wheel and reached over with the other, rubbing slow circles on his back. “Hey… breathe. You look like you just saw a ghost.”“I wonder why he’d do that,” Elias muttered, voice quiet. “After all the shit he’s said about me. The names, the sneers, the whole ‘princess’ routine. Then he kisses me like… like that.”“Yeah, I know, right?” Elara glanced at him, her tone gentle but trying to keep things light. “Was he drunk? That’s the only thing that makes sense. Guys like him don’t just flip the switch unless something’s messing with their head.”“I think he was,” Elias said, though he wasn’t sure. The way Jax had looked at him, wild, almos
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