Chapter 27

[ZARA]

If only I hadn’t been so careless…

God, why did I leave the album out there in the open? After making sure Armonica or Brandon didn’t get their hands on it, I stupidly left it on the dining top after cleaning up the room. How dumb could I be?

Then again, it wasn’t like I was expecting company.

Maddox Richmond just dropped by uninvited.

The asshole. The bane of my existence. The jerk who couldn’t keep his dick in his pants.

I thought in exchange for the album, he was probably trying to get his way with me. It wasn’t rocket science to read him, the kind of creep that he was.

He wasn’t doing an outstanding job of hiding the lust and want from his eyes. I could practically see the reel of that night playing in his mind, in the way the corner of his lips twitched to the side, the way he held me close and breathed in my scent and the shudder that travelled down his chest.

All the signs were there.

Except, it wasn’t as if with him in the same room I could think of something else eithe