Chapter 120

This possessive, volatile, and emotionally intense Alexander Barron—this is the real him. That side of him had only ever slipped out once in front of Summer Knight. That time, in a moment of impulse, he wanted so badly to keep her by his side. But then he got scared—scared of scaring her away—so he shoved that terrifying part of himself deep down again. Now, though, it was coming back. That same desperation, that same frantic need to lock her away in his world and protect her from everything, no matter the cost. Truth is, Alexander’s mental health was badly broken. He grew up under brutal abuse from his parents. First his dad, then his mom. His mom, with her iron grip on control, went as far as secretly taking him away from the Barron family home. They ended up in City A. That’s where he met Summer. But she had forgotten all about it. She couldn’t remember anything from their childhood—every little shared moment, every spark of connection between them, wiped clean from her mind. She ev