[Emma POV]
"Maddox...." I called him again.
My body was still trembling, still sensitive, still aching in places I didn’t know could ache. I’d given in. On the very first night. Maddox’s rough hands, his low growls in my ear, his whispered mine had broken every wall I thought I had. And I hadn’t resisted, God help me, I hadn’t even wanted to.
But the fragile safety of the moment shattered when the door slammed open.
“Emma.”
My name wasn’t spoken, it was ripped out like a curse.
Jaxon stood in the doorway, his tall frame filling it, eyes like fire as they landed on me tangled in Maddox’s sheets. His jaw clenched, his nostrils flaring as his gaze swept over my bare skin barely covered by Maddox’s shirt. The silence that followed was so sharp I could hear the pounding of my heart over t
