Chapter 26

[MADDOX]

“To a new beginning.” I raised the toast. “Cheers!” And took a sip, grinning to myself and watching her as the look on her face turned from annoyed to skeptical, before a small glimpse of panic shone in her baby-blue eyes.

By the time I put the glass back on the small dining table where I stood presently, she had already taken a step back.

“Why exactly are you here, Maddox?” she asked, slightly panicked, mostly suspicious.

It did not slip my mind that it was the first time she called me by my first name. I decided at that moment that I quite liked it that way. My name on her soft plump lips. As I remembered the way they tasted that night at her place, in her bedroom, on her bed, blood prompted in the south.

God, this woman could make a man horny just by saying his name.

“Why don’t you make an educated guess?” I hummed nonchalantly and shifted my gaze from her to the rest of the room around.

It was a decent two-bedroom apartment.

The walls were bland. No paintings. No picture