Chapter 48

CRYSTAL POV

We were inside Rosehill underground parking lot when Duncan gently shook me awake.

“Hey, we’re home.” His voice was feather light, caressing me with its smoothness and washing over me like summer rain. I must have been knocked out at some point in the club.

Shit. Why are my ears ringing?

I grimaced when my pulse thumped harder than the bass speakers, sending a continuous tide of pain that permeated through the thickness of my skull. I clutched my head with both hands and leaned back into the headrest. The door to my side was wrenched open, right before Duncan’s hands looped around the crook of my knees and behind my back. He effortlessly pulled me out of the car, sending me afloat into the air. My head felt like it was pulled back by gravity as it languidly fell back, pulling some tendons.

“Careful.” He warned, shifting me in his hold until the nape of my neck was on his upper man. I was a solid bundle of flesh and bone, but this man carried me like a bag of potatoes.

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