Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 692

Chapter 692

I was startled. "Jace, you..."

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But before I could finish, he swiped the blood away with the back of his hand, turned, and walked off. My legs twitched, like they wanted to follow him, but nope, I stayed put. Maybe it was better this way. If he kept pushing himself like that, maybe he'd finally leave me alone.

Xander came, his eyes zeroing in on the bloodstain. "Who are you mad at me? I didn't mean anything-I just thought he was annoying you, so I stepped in."

I ignored him and shoved the clothes I was holding into his hands. "Just go, Xander."

He hesitated but eventually headed to change. When he came back, hits bag of dirty clothes was in one hand, and in the other? A wet wipe.

To my surprise, he crouched down by the door, wiping up the blood Jace left behind.

The second the door clicked shut behind Xander, I collapsed onto the couch.

I sat there for what felt like hours, my brain stuck in a loop of Jace coughing up blood on repeat. When I couldn't sit anymore, I flopped onto the couch and stayed there.

grim GIF that wouldn't stop. It felt like that blood didn't just

I just stared out the window for a while before

I saw it. Dried blood-on my face,

started cleaning it off, slow

long after I got to the office, my phone

by a car in my territory?" His tone was as

Saved me the hassle, so I didn't bother sugarcoating anything. What's

is messing with me." He had a point. Even jerks know better than to disrespect the

after last night, I wasn't holding

me the rundown," Cole

security footage," I snapped. I wasn't

took down,

course, he knew. Cole always

guy was one of Wayne's men. If Cole went after him, it'd

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