Chapter 58 Warden

• Leo was acting as Grayson’s fucking warden. And it wasn’t hard to figure out who called him, as Mr. Duvall respected his bosses privacy and discretion. His surrogate, though he used the term lightly, kept sticking her nose in where it didn’t belong. Amberleigh Dubois was to blame for Leo now breathing down his neck and not giving him a moment’s peace. He should have never brought the girl here and this arrangement was going to hell.
• He let things get out of hand this morning. He lost his temper and control of his emotions. He acted repulsively and considered apologizing to his surrogate. Even if she had provoked him, he should have never tried to take her so roughly. He had felt the way her body stiffened beneath him, the change in her tone. She hadn’t enjoyed it, nor wanted it in that context, and he felt remorse over that at least. The girl had suffered abuse in her life, and he had behaved abhorrently. It would never happen again. He would remain in control around her. Grayson was many things, but a rapist wasn’t one of them. He was sickened by his own behavior.
• It was his friend’s smiling face Grayson saw the next morning, when he opened his bleary eyes and reached for his smartwatch by habit. Only to find it wasn’t on the charging dock where he left it. He glared at the chef who held a breakfast tray in front of him.