Scarlett POV
I blocked Jaxen again after his unhinged w******p messages and finally passed out, exhausted.
Sleep came fast, deep, and dreamless until blinding light stabbed through my eyelids.
My apartment was pitch-black when I went to bed. Now it felt like daylight.
Heart pounding, I cracked one eye open.
A tall, unmistakable silhouette stood at the foot of my bed.
Moonlight from the window carved sharp edges across a face I knew too well.
Jaxen?
What the hell?
I bolted upright, sheets tangling around my legs.
“How did you get in here? I locked everything!”
“Locks are for humans,” he said, voice rough, like gravel under moonlight.
His wildfire-and-smoke scent flooded the room, overpowering clung to my skin.
He stepped closer.
I scrambled back against the headboard, pulse ro
