Chapter 79 I Want You Jaxx... More Than Anything

Jaxx’s Point Of View "I won’t stop you." The words hung in the air between us, heavy, final, a challenge and a surrender all at once. I watched her… Elena Sinclair, the woman who had burrowed under my skin like a fucking splinter I couldn’t dig out… stand there, wide-eyed, her chest rising and falling in quick, shallow breaths. For a moment, I thought I’d scared her off. That I’d pushed too far, demanded too much, been too raw, too real, too me. A sigh clawed its way out of my chest, rough and resigned. I began to turn away, my body already moving before my mind could catch up. I wasn’t the type to force a woman into anything, let alone something as intimate as this. As much as I wanted her… fuck, as much as I needed her, I wouldn’t take what wasn’t freely given. Still, the disappointment settled in my gut like a stone. I should’ve known. Should’ve known she’d never agree to this. To me. To the darkness I offered, the ruin I promised. I flicked my tongue against my teeth, the taste of