Chapter 24

JAKE

Ikiss her because I need to—hard, controlled, but close enough to losing it that I feel it in my bones. She gives under me, soft and breathless, and when I pull back, her mouth is swollen, her eyes wrecked.

Mine.

“Stay with me,” I tell her.

The knock hits the door thirty seconds later.

I nod to Mason, who’s already moving into a tactical position. Because whatever’s waiting on the other side of that door? It’s about to become a problem.

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