Jaxen POV
I had imagined plenty of ways Scarlett might react when she woke up.
I hadn’t imagined being accused of drugging her.
I had apparently walked straight into a crime I hadn’t committed.
“Travis Kim drugged you.”
I kept my voice calm.
“I have proof.”
I’d sent my people to investigate the second I brought her home.
By the middle of the night, they’d traced everything back to Travis.
He’d been trying to curry favor with James White and had arranged for Scarlett to be isolated and drugged so he could hand her over to James.
The goal had been simple—use her as leverage to secure James’s cooperation.
I hated even saying it out loud.
But I needed her to know the truth.
She didn’t believe me.
She swung her legs over the side of the bed, tried to stand, and her knees bu
