Chapter 105

Theo’s POV

I’m trying to behave. Trying to keep my distance and not let myself fall apart over her. She’s going to leave. I know that. And I don’t want Nathan or Mason to be stuck picking up the pieces when she does.

So I’m pulling back. Holding myself in check. I’m doing everything I can not to slip into that place I always go, where my mind spirals and drowns in the chaos I pretend to control.

It’s taking everything I have, but I’m managing.

When she climbed onto me back there, when she wrapped herself around me and pushed herself down onto my cock in the middle of a restaurant, I should’ve felt victorious. That’s normally when I’d lose control. I’d grab her throat and claim her. I’d taunt and tease, drag her through edge after edge until she was ruined and soaked, dripping down my thighs while everyone else trie