Sasha slammed the door behind her and leaned her back against it as if the whole world was pressing in on her chest. Her lungs stung. Her eyes burned. She pushed herself forward and stumbled toward the bed. By the time she collapsed face down on the sheets, the sobs were already choking her.
She didn't even try to hold them back. She cried like a child who had just lost something she didn't even know she had.
It wasn't the kiss itself that killed her...it was that it was Xavier. The Xavier who, in all the time she had known him, had never once let another woman close enough to touch his lips. And he had done it tonight... not with just anyone, but with Taylor.
She rolled onto her back and covered her face with both hands, biting down on her knuckles to muffle the sound. The image wouldn
