Chapter Thirty-Four

Jax

Amelia stares at me, unblinking, while conjuring up the perfect answer to my question. “I … I don’t know.”

Asking that question was dumb.

We were having a good night.

But sometimes, you have to ask the shit that hurts.

And my brat sister’s words are in my mind.

“You’d better figure it out before you lose her a second time.”

“Are we just waiting it out … to eventually break apart when we fizzle out, or are we really going to try this?” I swivel in my stool to capture every emotion that flashes across her face.

She’s quiet.

I swallow. “Amelia, tell me what you’re thinking.”

“I don’t know,” she whispers, and the room falls quiet. “We need more time.”

“That’s fine.”

“Let’s give it a month.”

I nod. “A month, and we’ll see where we’re at.”

A month.

Thirty days for us to decide where our hearts are and where they will go.

Thirty days to find out if this is only sex … or something real.