NDA

Halle stared long and hard at the door after it closed behind Xavier.

She sat there, rooted deeply in shock and not sure she would be able to snap herself out of it anytime soon.

The conversation they’d just had was far from what she expected, far from what she imagined he would say to her when he finally decided to give her an explanation as to why she was chosen.

He still didn’t give her an answer she understood but he said something else that made all of her questions feel like they were not worth asking.

Halle let out a shaky breath and clenched the sheets beneath her fingers, her cold fingers that managed to pale in comparison to the coldness of his own body.

He was dying.

He is—

Halle sucked in a sharp breath she struggled hard to process the information, never in a million years did she imagine that a man as infuriating yet as strong as he was would be weakened by such a thing.

This just proved that he was more human than any other man she’s been close to, he’s experien