Chapter10: Percipience

By the time she had pulled into the driveway back home, the sun was high in the sky, and the absence of sleep had become overly apparent.

Her body felt sluggish, eyes heavy, but despite all of that, her lips still tingled from where Charley had kissed her. With a smile, she hopped out of the Jeep and made her way toward the front door. Briefly, she glanced to where Thea had stood before. She wasn’t there now, of course, but Jaxx couldn’t shake feeling like part of the woman lingered.

She chalked it up to feeling bad about how things had gone down between them. It hadn’t been her intention to be such a pr*ck.

Jaxx shrugged it off as she stepped on the porch and fished out her house key. She went to shove it into the handle, but the heavy steel door jerked open before she had a chance. With a confused expression, she looked up, and then her face fell.

“Sh*t.”