Chapter 72 Ashes Of Loyalty

• “You should have let me go,” I hissed, the words trembling out of me even as my body ached from clinging to him.
• Jaxon’s hand tightened on the wheel, knuckles white, jaw a steel trap. The city lights cut across his face, half-shadow, half-devil. “I don’t let go, Raven. Not of you.”
• The SUV roared down the empty highway, but the silence between us was louder than gunfire. My heart hadn’t stopped racing not from the escape, but from the choice he’d made. Because I knew what it cost.