The Party 1

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CHAPTER 203

~Xade's POV~

Right from when I left her room until this evening, my mind has not been settled with Valerie. 

I kept replaying all the ways she would growl and complain to me or about what I did and preparing myself for the worst.

Valerie sat beside me in the passenger seat of my car, and for the first time in a long while, I couldn't hear the engine over the rhythm of my own heartbeat.

She looked... devastatingly beautiful.

The thigh-high fitted white skirt hugged her just enough to command attention but not scream for it. 

Her black jacket framed her shoulders in that perfect off-duty warrior look, and those boots—damn. They weren't just footwear. They were a message: don't mess with me unless you want to be wrecked.