Chapter 703

Brielle was lounging on the couch while Max stood. She wrapped her arm around him, leaving her head resting against his midsection. Max froze for a moment, then felt her hand slip under his shirt–deliberately igniting his lust. A shadow passed over his eyes, his Adam’s apple bobbing.

He chucked the remote control, not bothering to see if it landed on the coffee table. He spun around, pinned her to the couch, and kissed her fiercely.

Brielle felt breathless, on the verge of suffocation, before he released her. Clothes littered the path from the living room to the bedroom. Max carried the faint scent of liquor–he must have had a drink here, evidenced by the small wine glass still resting on the coffee table. His eyes, slightly intoxicated with warmth, imprisoned her completely in his embrace as he hoisted her up. Startled by the vulnerability of the position, Brielle’s cheeks flushed. “Hey, easy,” she murmured.

Their bodies pressed close together.

In truth, she didn’t want him to be gentle. She wanted him to be rougher, to completely unravel her so that she could feel his presence instead of a gesture of rejection.

His rejection was painful. His indifference drove her mad. She wanted to be entwined tightly with him, to forget everything else for a moment and focus only on each other.

Neither asked why they didn’t answer calls or texts; physical communication was far more honest.

speak. Drops of sweat beaded on Max’s forehead, sliding from his jaw to her chest. The bedroom light was dim

heat of his sweat turn dry, then red, and finally, like a tattooed mark

questions, but for now,

with his hand. “Stop looking, just sleep,” he said. Her gaze made his body react and feel like she was

རྨཋོ རྫ ïཎྜརྗ ཐྭ ཧ རྗཥྞཾ ཆ ཚེâ –

palm as she mumbled,

the words in the world couldn’t weigh

a light chuckle. Wasn’t this

“I won’t.”

me back to even it out?” With

her talking. She feared it was all a dream, that Max would vanish upon waking.

on her mind.

the rosary too, so please don’t blame

even, okay?”

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