The Unanswered Proposal

As soon as the plea slipped past my teeth, a wave of immediate regret hit me. I knew right away I had crossed a line I shouldn't have. The sheer stunned disbelief across Jax’s face was awful to witness, leaving an agonizingly heavy quiet hanging between us in the bedroom. He fumbled over a few broken syllables, hunting for a proper response while trying to move past the comment, though his own dis