The big bad wolf gone soft

Gavin’s POV

As much as I tried to convince myself that it was just a harmless couples fight, Jessie’s words haunted me. All day, every passing second.

That one line bothered me. “It was just sex? Move on?”

Even if it was just sex, how do you move on from something that great?

Was it just me? Was she pretending? Was she fake moaning? How could she say that when she couldn’t move a finger after last night? Did she forget already? Did she “get over it”already?

I could hear my inner self laugh at my contemplations.

“I told you so,” he said, “It was too good to be true.”

I swallowed hard. My grip tightened around the steering wheel but I couldn’t drive out of my company’s parking lot.

I needed some time to process what I was feeling because I couldn’t tell if it was pain or anger.

An unexpected knock on the window startled me, snapping out my thoughts abruptly.

I raised my gaze to find Franklyn staring back at me.

I wound down the window and he bent low, “It’s after work hours and I’m