Justin POV
The hallway outside the club was quieter, away from the music, the bodies, the chaos. Somehow, we ended up there her back against the wall, me leaning close enough to feel the heat radiating from her.
She smelled like vanilla and something wild, something untamed. My chest tightened. For the first time since Ivie, I wanted. Not just physically, but… dangerously.
I wanted to know her. Her name. Her story. Her fears.
I wanted to peel back the layers she guarded so tightly.
And as her eyes lifted to mine, wide and searching, I knew this wasn’t chance.
This was the beginning of something I hadn’t been ready for. Something I wasn’t sure I could survive.
But I also knew one thing for certain, I wasn’t walking away.
She drew me into her and before I knew it, she was in my SUV a
