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.
“Your boyfriend 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 last time I came here, chuckled.
I rolled my eyes, standing up and dusting my hands on my tights. “Hey Xade! You have a clinger on your hands mate!” Christian snorted. “She kept coming here in search of you for days. I thought she would start camping around-
Xade turned around and stormed towards Christian, his eyes an odd color that made me shiver in fear. There was something primal about his stare, raw and animal.
My heart leaped in my throat.
Christian stopped his teasing words mid sentence and froze when as Xade approached him, closing the distance between them in chilling seconds. His cocky grin fades into a cringe.
Even I felt scared for him.
“What did you just say?” Every word was a growl of pressed anger, dangerous and terrifying.
Christian swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple bobbing. The guy beside him shifted on his feet, looking at Xade with equal terror. He clearly looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here right now and I don’t blame him.
The intimidation that rolled off Xade was tempting even me to bend the knee and beg him. There’s a certain power surrounding him that numbed anyone to the core.
“Hey Xade man, I was just kidding,” he looked over Xade’s shoulder and met my gaze, silently 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 to get to Xade or not.
He looked…out of it. Wild.
“Kidding?” Xade spat the word out like 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 ass.”
My lips slacken into an ‘o’.
“Got it?” He ground out while Christian’s face loses the color in his face. He honestly looked ready to piss himself. I almost felt bad for him.
Christian nods, looking like he has seen a ghost. Xade stands there for a couple more tense seconds and then with a lethal glare, he turns around and his eyes meet mine, and instantly they soften.
“Grab your stuff, I’ll drop you off.”
I nodded, not wanting to be told twice and rush toward my stuff, grabbed them, and followed Xade out of the gym. He’s a little ahead of me and his back was tense. He looked like he was still fuming inwardly.
I bit the inside of my cheek, silently following behind him. His legs are long and his strides are even longer so it’s hard to keep up. By the time he was in his car, it took me a good minute to reach the passenger side.
I slide into the seat quietly, unsure if to say a word or not. Tension still radiated off of him and I am unsure if to break it or not. I decide to keep quiet and instead reach for my bottle of water.
I opened the cap, bringing the opening to my lips when a ginger stray cat suddenly lands on the bonnet and hisses at Xade. Startled, I end up spilling the water on my lips, down my neck to between my breasts.
I gasp, quickly unzipping the gym bra. “Crap. Do you have tissue-
The words die on my tongue when I turn to Xade and see him staring at my exposed cleavage. I reddened, seeing the wild hunger swimming in his eyes and gasp when suddenly he moves so fluidly and quickly, picking me up and setting me to straddle his lap.
“Fuck it.” He grunt, burying his fingers in my hair and slamming my mouth down on his in a fiery kiss that makes my toes curl.
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