Jax turns to face me, his intense gaze sending my coronary heart beating tougher than the climb up the mountain did. “What do you imply?”

“Are you actually a bodyguard, or do you normally convey ladies as much as this cabin for prolonged stays?” Perhaps you name them fairly too.

His eyes flare with one thing I can’t decipher as he begins for me, forcing me to again up towards a wall. “Don’t you assume it’s best to have requested that earlier than you adopted me to a secluded cabin in a dense forest?”

He’s proper. I ought to have requested after I met him this morning, however all the pieces occurred so quick that I discovered myself simply going together with all of it. I admit that was fairly careless of me, however part of me instantly trusted Jax with my security, and the truth that he’s associated to a cop helped with no matter reservations I might need had.

“I belief you,” I provide shakily, acutely aware of the person standing so dangerously near me. “I used to be simply questioning should you convey individuals right here lots, is all.”

“Are you simply . . . curious?”

Jealous too, however I don’t voice that loopy, unbidden thought. “Sure.”

“Wonderful, I’ll inform you what I’m, Gwen.” His voice is tough as he backs up a step, leaving me extra air to breathe. “I served within the Marines for sixteen years earlier than taking an early discharge final yr. I work as a guide for safety firms and typically take brief contracts when they should outsource, however nothing past that.”

“So, like, you don’t convey individuals to the cabin to cover them away from vengeful psychotic gangsters?”

“That is my retreat after I have to get out of town,” he says gruffly. “And no, I don’t convey strangers into this place. You’re the primary.”

“Okay,” I whisper, hiding the reduction in my voice. “I used to be simply, uhm, curious. We are able to keep on with the tour.”

Jax grabs my arm earlier than I can stroll into the toilet he was displaying me, and he pushes me again towards the wall. My eyes widen in alarm when he steps again into my house, his vanilla and woodsy scent sending my head reeling. “You might have requested your query, now it’s my flip.”

“What—”

“Why does the considered me bringing different individuals right here appear to harass you?”

My cheeks flush in mortification at being referred to as out as I hurry to defend myself. “You’re mistaken, I wasn’t aggravated—”

“Inform me the reality!”

As a result of the considered one other lady accessing your hot-as-sin physique, feeling your bulging muscular tissues pressed up towards them, and tasting your completely curved lips—all of the issues I’ll by no means get to do—sends murderous ideas swirling via my head.

However I can’t inform him that. He would have a look at me like I’ve gone out of my thoughts, and fairly frankly, he wouldn’t be far off. I really feel like I’m shedding my thoughts, however I select accountable it on the traumatic expertise I had a number of days in the past and never on this good man.

“Maybe what you noticed on my face is exhaustion. I haven’t had a wink of sleep for days, scared that somebody will assault me whereas I’m asleep.”

He doesn’t name me out on my bullshit this time. As a substitute, he runs his intense gaze over my face earlier than lastly pushing again, leaving me house to breathe.

“Then let’s get you settled, Gwen,” he says. “I’ll be sure to get all of the sleep you want.”

Chapter 4

Jax

Get up!

Jax, it is advisable get up!

I get up with a begin, my head nonetheless ringing with the sound of gunshots and pained cries from the nightmare. This one was worse than the one I had the night time earlier than. I can nonetheless hear the echoes of the worst night time of my life. I can nonetheless see all of it in my thoughts.

Fuck!

I leap, startled after I really feel cool palms press towards the damp pores and skin of my naked shoulders, and after I search for, it’s to search out fairly hazel eyes staring again up at me, broad with concern.

“Hey, are you okay?” she whispers, urgent her hand to my brow, and for a second, I think about I died in my sleep and went to heaven with how fairly and angelic this lady appears to be like in her white nightgown. Actuality hits laborious as all the pieces slowly begins sinking in.

“Gwen,” I choke out, my voice sounding tough even to my very own ears.

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