Nixx Havoc ripped the phone from JJ’s hand, and every muscle in my body locked. I had watched the entire exchange from the shop feed, from the moment Stitch walked out for coffee to the second JJ flinched when Havoc tried to kiss her. I’d already been close to getting in the SUV when he grabbed her jaw. The only thing keeping me in the chair was knowing that charging in without a plan could make everything worse for her. Now he had her phone, and Benny stopped typing beside me. “That’s bad.” “No shit.” Havoc unlocked it without asking for the code. That pissed me off almost as much as everything else. He didn’t just control where she went or who she saw. He had access to every f*****g corner of her life and treated it like his right. He opened her messages first, and a humorless smil

