Chapter 36

There she is, Xavier thought. All five feet and five inches of her. It was almost shocking how little she'd changed in the years they'd been apart. Apparently she still liked to wear her auburn hair in a long braid. Her eyes still shone like a pair of sapphires over her freckle-dusted cheeks. And she still had a body that could make anything look good, even high-waisted, army green uniform pants.

She also, quite obviously, wasn't over the way things had ended between them.

The look in her eyes was murderous. More than that - she looked like she wanted to rip his heart right out of his chest, stomp on it, and then toss it into one of those steaming geysers nearby.

Honestly, that's kind of what it felt like already, just looking at her.

"What are you doing here?" she demanded.

She still had her temper, too. Fuck, he'd been on the receiving end of that temper a number of times, and he didn't want to relive the experience. The girl was a viper.

Of course, that had also made the sex b