Scarlett POV
Before I could even twist away, he hauled me inside and threw me onto the back seat. I hadn’t even caught my breath when the door slammed shut with a heavy, final thud, locking me in with him.
The driver didn’t wait for Jaxen’s order.
The privacy partition hummed upward with a smooth, final click, sealing us in the back of the car.
The outside world disappeared. It was just him and me, and the heavy weight of everything we’d never finished.
I twisted around in the leather seat, heart slamming against my ribs.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Jaxen Hale?”
“Removing you from a situation you had no business being in.” His voice was low, controlled, that arctic calm he wore like armor. As if the last twenty minutes—dragging me out of Denise’s building, ignoring my
