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.

finally showed up?” He chuckled, moving over to the weight bench. The other guy beside him who I recognized as the one who spotted him the

my hands on my tights. “Hey Xade! You have a clinger on your hands mate!”

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

leaped in

approached him, closing the distance between them in chilling seconds. His cocky grin fades

felt scared for

say?” Every word was a growl

on his feet, looking at Xade with equal terror. He clearly looked like he

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

to tell Xade to back off. But I am tongue tied

looked…out of

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

slacken into an

in his face.

more tense seconds and then with a lethal glare, he turns around and his eyes meet

I’ll

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