JASPER
The sound of her name lingered in the air as a gunshot neither of us could take back.
In one second, desire died completely. Deadly silence crashed afterward.
Seraphina froze above me. Her body remained pressed against mind, but everything else had stopped. The warmth, movement, and intimacy. Reality settled brutally between us.
Shit!
My chest rose sharply as I realized what I had done. Or worse, what I revealed. For a moment, neither of us moved.
Slowly, Seraphina pulled away from me. She wasn’t dramatic like I expected or even violent. But that silence terrified me more than screaming would.
Seraphina’s rage was usually loud and sharp. This silence felt different, like watching a glass c***k before it shattered completely.
The dim light spilling across the room revealed he
