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“Yes.” My fingers started to tease her nipples. “I want you screaming Amber.”

“You’ll have to make me.”

“Awe sweetheart, you shouldn’t have said that.” I laughed; she was going to regret that. She really shouldn’t be setting me challenges.

Chapter 48

Amber

I don’t know how long I slept for, but it felt like a lifetime. I dragged myself out of bed. I wasn’t even mildly surprised to not see Jax here. I think I had slept most of the day away and I couldn’t even check the time because my phone was downstairs.

Last night. The memories hit me hard and fast. It was unexplainable. I didn’t expect Jax to keep one word he said last night.

I pulled on my sports crop top and shorts. Yep, no way he would be thinking the same today. I walked out of the bedroom with my headphones.

I jogged down the stairs.

“And what do you know, she is awake,” Adam greeted me at the bottom of the stairs and then frowned at me. “Are you about to do exercise?”

“Yeah, morning run, it’s my routine.” I walked around him and headed for the couch.

“It’s after four in the afternoon,” Adam said, and I shrugged; so much for a morning run. Well, an afternoon run was just as good.

“That thing hasn’t shut up,” Cole pointed to my phone like it had been annoying him.

“You could have turned it off or woken me.”

He scoffed. “Not according to the King.”

“What’s that meant to mean?” I looked between them.

“Jax wanted to make sure you slept. He also wanted me to tell you he had to leave but will be back.” Adam rolled his eyes. “He acted like it was life or death that you knew where he was.”

“More like our lives depended on her getting his message,” Cole snapped. “Guessing you two are back together?”

“I’m not answering that, but I am going for a run.” I backed out of the room.

“It’s the middle of the afternoon and it is hot out there.”

“I can take the heat.” I gave them a firm smile. “Now I’m going for that run.”

“You used to be allergic to exercise.” Cole crossed his arms. “What changed?”

“Tae got me into it. It’s meant to help with my temper,” I explained, and lit up my phone; numerous missed calls from Tae. He was the only one that had my new number.

“I’ll message you my new number,” I said to Cole and Adam, but was more focused on Tae’s messages. He needed me. “Maybe that run will have to wait,” I mumbled. I was being summoned.

“So, who are you with? Tae or Jax?” Adam asked, sounding hopeful for the latter.

Why had he always supported Jax and I?

“I don’t know.” After last night, I didn’t know if Jax had been serious, or if he had just missed me enough to make all those promises; like repeating he loved me and each time he did, it knocked down one of my walls.

It made something start beating again, that I had thought was dead - my heart, but if he was the one to help me get my heart back, he would also have the power to destroy it again.

Leave me like this again. A barely functioning, autopilot machine, but last night I hadn’t been on autopilot; no, he brought out a side to me I thought was dead.

He gave me faith again.

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