Chapter 20
Marcus’s POV
I stood in the darkened hallway, listening to the soft click of Derek’s bedroom door closing.
My heart was still racing from the angry, possessive s*x we’d just shared. My body hummed with satisfaction, but my mind was a storm of conflicting emotions.
I slipped back into my own room, the guest room that now felt more like home than any place I’d lived before, and sat on the edge of the bed.
The sheets still smelled faintly of the laundry detergent Derek’s mother used.
Her scent. The woman who had given me a second chance at stability. The woman I was betraying in the worst possible way.
Guilt clawed at my chest, sharp and unrelenting.
What the hell was I doing?
I had come into this family intending to be the steady partner she deserved. After my failed m
