Avery’s pov

“Just a few more,” Xade called out from the bench.

He had been staring at me intensely the entire time I was doing pull up’s and it was honestly overwhelming to have his attention solely on me for that long.

I gritted my teeth. My abdomen ached and sweat glistens on my skin. I looked like a hot mess and felt like a hot mess.

I pulled myself up, breathing out the number I had been on. “Fifty.”

As soon as I hit the mark, I drop on my back, the sweat from my skin clinging to the mat. Xade got up from the bench and approached me, crouching down and hovering over me. He grinned.

“You’re tough given your size,” he teased, pushing out a hand for me to take. I grabbed his hand, my fingers interlocking with his. Tingles race up my arm and I gasp.

His eyes drop to our interlocked fingers and he groaned, quickly letting me go and standing up. “That’s all for today, we’ll continue this tomorrow, same time.”

I frowned, staring at his back as he walked away. The door to the gym opened and Christian and another guy stepped in. Christian spotted me right away and whistled.

beside him who I recognized as the one who spotted him the last time

hands on my tights. “Hey Xade! You have a clinger on your hands mate!” Christian snorted. “She kept coming here in search of you

odd color that made me shiver in fear. There was something primal about his stare, raw

leaped in

sentence and froze when as Xade approached him, closing the distance between them

felt scared for

Every word was a growl of pressed anger, dangerous

his feet, looking at Xade with equal terror. He clearly looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here right

even me to bend the knee and beg him. There’s a certain power surrounding him

pleading with me to tell Xade to back off. But I am tongue tied as I watch the scene, unsure if I would even be able

of it.

it was acid in his mouth. “See that girl over there,” he points at me. “Don’t watch her, don’t talk to her, don’t fucking come near her. Or else,” he leaned forward. “I’ll cut off your fucking tongue and push those damn weights up your

lips slacken

out while Christian’s face loses the color in his face. He honestly looked ready to piss himself. I almost felt bad

he has seen a ghost. Xade stands there for a couple more tense seconds and then with a lethal glare, he turns

your stuff, I’ll drop

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