Chapter Forty
The very next evening, when the orange and purple colors of the sunset were just beginning to fade completely into the dark night sky, Stone did something that completely and utterly surprised my anxious mind.
After days and days of constant, suffocating emotional tension, brutal highway raids, terrifying death threats from our rivals, and the massive weight of my own growing doubts about our future together, the heavy wooden bedroom door swung open. Stone walked into our private room with a very different energy surrounding his massive frame. He had just finished shaving, and instead of his usual casual t-shirt, he was wearing a crisp, perfectly clean black button-up shirt underneath his leather club cut. He stopped right in front of the bed, looked straight down into my e
