Lingering Traces

Anyone with half a clue could tell what those red marks on Tessa's neck were about.

Jaxon's fingers slowly clenched around his fork, before he even realized it.

Luckily, the food started arriving just then.

As they dug in, the three of them chatted about everything that went down in Oakhaven City while Tessa was stuck on that island.

Jaxon and Freya seemed to have an unspoken agreement not to ask