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Chapter 12—The Jaxon Hawthorne Way
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2025-03-12 20:27:00Chapter 12— The Jaxon Hawthorne Way
The private jet touched down at Narita International Airport, Tokyo just after dusk, but Jaxon wasn’t met with the usual relief that came with escaping the chaos of New York.
The weather mirrored his mood. Invigorating sharpness and cold. He looked down at the coat in his hand. He might be too angry to even need it for warm-up.
He didn’t regret leaving Kallista by the curb. Regret was for the weak. What gnawed at him was the chaos he’d left behind—the tabloids would surely be having a field day already and he tried to shut his last image of his bride’s distraught face when he left her by the curb. The image had carried him through his flight.
Fourteen hours was long enough, but spending most of those hours thinking about what he would do with the woman he had left behind with no plan for her. The w
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