58. Chapter 56
Xavier
With one final look at the sleeping figure curled up under the blankets, I pull Emery’s bedroom door shut behind me. My phone, silently vibrating in my back pocket, makes my irritation surge.
I’ve still got twenty minutes to get to the site. Hawk can go fuck himself if he thinks he can rush me.
Going over to my gear, I pull out the note and gift from Hudson to leave on the coffee table for Emery—a gift card for tickets to the movies for her and a friend—then I rip a sheet of paper out of my notepad.
I hunker down to the coffee table and scribble out my note, not wanting her to think this is a fuck-and-run situation.
Dove,
I will be gone for the weekend, returning Monday. Do not mistake my absence as permission to spiral. You are mine and I am yours.
Do not take your bracelet off.
Always,
Xavier
I consider adding more but leave it. This will be enough, if she allows herself to trust me. If she doesn’t, then I’ll be coming home to a highly wound-up sub, ready for some tension relief.
Every version of her is fine with me.