CHAPTER 189

—CHRISTIAN

Jennifer is the type of person who had a smile and kind words for everyone and would give someone the shirt off her back.

The vicious undercurrent of my conversation with Rapheal was probably as foreign to her as a selfless charity was to me.

I could only imagine how she’d react if she discovered some of the things I’d done in my basement.

Not that she ever would.

There were some things she could never know.

The warmth from her palm radiated up my arm and eased some of the black, restless energy churning in my chest.

It felt wrong to touch her when I was this on edge, like my darkness would seep through my touch and devour her

light.

I forced myself to dial back the hostility, if only for her sake. I didn’t want to taint our first public event together as it is for her.

Still, I couldn’t resist a final dig at Rapheal.

“You might want to brush up on your security system though.” I took a languorous sip of my drink.

“Sometimes,

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