LEXI
I froze at the sight of the silhouette seated on the island. My heart hammered against my ribs so violently it hurt, and for a moment I couldn’t breathe.
My lips parted, but only a trembling whisper escaped when I tried to speak and ask who it was. Before I could process what I was looking at, the figure moved, and the moonlight hit his face.
My knees buckled.
“What the hell are you doing here?” he roared, his voice cracking through the silence like thunder. “Why did you come home?” I tried to move, to run while asking myself how he got inside my house, but I didn’t get the chance.
Ward was on me in an instant, his fist slamming into my gut. The air whooshed out of my lungs in a strangled cry, and I collapsed to the ground. Pain radiated through my body as his fists rained down
