Chapter 57

I can tell he has a whole lot going on in his head, and he wants to tell me it’s his way or no way, yet something is holding him back. I’m waiting on the eruption, but all I am getting is a very controlled, if not angry, Alexi and his inability to look directly at me. He keeps clenching and unclenching his jaw and fist and staring across the park as though answers will magically appear before his eyes. The atmosphere is thick and tense between us as I stand internally trembling in anticipation of the predicted war. Then finally, he turns back to me.

“Jackson will never leave your side; he will walk you to and from the fucking apartment morning, noon and night. You come out here for air… he does too. You want to go upstairs mid-night for a fucking aspirin? He goes too. You want to get a bikini wax or a lingerie shopping trip; then HE GOES TOO.” He snarls at me, voice raised angrily, rage building at my refusal, and as much as I’m taken aback by how vicious this topic has made h