Chapter 34: Treading on Dangerous Territory

Axton

A need to comfort Jody burned through me for the rest of the day and into the next. I wanted to distract her from our current situation, shield her as much as I could from the terrors of this place. I wanted her to dream about good things and not whatever nightmares would plague her. And I wanted to know more about her. Everything she did fascinated me. Like the way, her hips swung when she walked back and forth in our cell as she talked about what she'd learned in medical school and her love of something called puzzles.

My hands itched to snatch her up and kiss her like I'd done before. But I couldn't. That was too dangerous no matter how each passing moment with her felt like I was tempting an addiction that I'd never recover.