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Ashleigh held on as Alex followed her over the edge with blinding, intense fury

In thatfor this man and the ramifications of that scared her half out of her h would ever find another man who could sate her the way Alex could

In the end, she knew the devastation would be abysmal, and she promised that no matter the outcoht here, when she had given in to the fact that Alex McDermott owned her – mind, body, and soul

Chapter Sixteen

Alex had no sooner walked in his back door when Jessie ca?” He asked as he passed through the living room on his way to the kitchen

He needed a beer and he needed one bad After that long ass drive to Austin and back, Alex wanted nothingthat would h was there with him Since he’d been busy ork and she busy with a deadline, he hadn’t gotten to see her in two days now – not since that shtoff to Ashleigh’s, he’d be sitting at hoo hoh’s since Jessie had been released from the hospital, and it wasn’t because he didn’t want to No, he’d h, but truth be told, he orried about Jessie, but ood place to be, honestly

“A little better My ar” Jessie said softly as she curled up on his couch

The doctor had offered pain o that route Jessie was a recovering addict, and the last thing she needed was so o back home” She said when he took a seat on the empty couch across from her

“Well, Jeff’s in jail for a little while, so I think it would be safe for you to go ho to push her out the door, but a gentle nudge wasn’t going to hurt

It’s not that he didn’t like Jessie because he did Hell, he’d been e was for entirely different reasons, but for some reason, Alex felt like he’d been here before

Different man, same circumstance

Alex met Jessie at a strip club when he enty-one years old She was supposed to have been eighteen, but as it turned out, she lied about her age and provided a fake id Being that she was a dancer at the club, that had caused quite a few problerief It was her father So when Alex found out that Jessie was being abused at hoet her out of that mess had been to marry her He didn’t recommend it to anyone, but he had done it nonetheless

They were hteen which was only a couple of e annulled, and Alex had ht that would be the end of it He and Jessie were friends, and he wished her well and all that

As it turned out, Jessie was a walking disaster Her time at the strip club had led to sos and alcohol Given that she had no one else to turn to, Alex again stepped in to save the day And for da to her rescue every ti to think there was so it? No, of course not Her broken arave the cops was an entirely different one than the one she offered

In Jeff’s version, Jessie had called hiht, telling Jeff that the only thing she needed to do was to call Alex and everything would be taken care of

Her version varied, depending on who she told it to What she told Alex was that she had just gotten home from hen Jeff showed up He proceeded to beat her because she wouldn’t go and get the to eat She’d been scared and injured, which hy she called Alex

The scared and injured part he believed The rest sounded like total bullshit But as he going to do about it? He’d spent the better part of two decades saving her froive up on her now seemed a little cruel

“Do you mind if I stay here for a couple more days?” She asked sweetly