Take Off My Shirt

Darkness had settled outside my window by the time a soft, polite tap sounded against the door.

"Maeve, it's Jax," he called from the hall, making sure I knew who it was and giving me fair warning out of modesty. Even his knock carried a quiet sweetness, every inch the gentleman.

Pulling the door open from the inside, I welcomed him in with a wide grin. Boredom was already creeping up on me in t