MAXWELL’S POV
"Show me what loyalty feels like."
The words hung in the air between us, feeling incredibly heavy and highly electric. Looking down at Andrea pinned securely between my body and the solid oak door of my bedroom, her chest was rising and falling rapidly. Her pupils were blown completely wide in the dim light of the city filtering softly through the sheer curtains.
She wasn't backing down even a fraction of an inch. Refusing to tremble with fear anymore, she was trembling instead with the exact same raw and desperate need that was currently tearing me apart from the inside out.
Bracing my good left hand firmly against the doorframe right by her head, my right hand throbbed painfully inside its bandage while hanging entirely uselessly at my side. It was the absolute only thi
