#Chapter45

XAVIER POV

One week earlier...

My eyes ached as I glared at the computer screen. Drowning yourself in work 14 hours a day wasn't a good thing, but I had to get my mind off of Lia.

She's staying at Jasmine's house tonight and I already miss her. Her angelic laugh, her catlike eyes, her light brown hair, the curves of her body.

The way her nose scrunched up when she was confused or how she was so focused on her work, that I could stab myself with a fork and she wouldn't even bat an eyelash.

I was completely and utterly consumed by my Lia.

Every time she...