Chapter 53: Heat

The companion book has been approved by my e****r. So THAT will be free. And I'll have a bunch of scenes that didn't make the final cut i.e. there's a scene where Rose falls asleep drunk and Xavier stays with her the entire night. There are bunch of alternate scenes I had written out and those will be in there too. Some explicit scenes are going to be unavoidable for plot development purposes in this story but the ones that don't make the final cut i.e. Rose and Xavier's first time together (because it really isn't that important aside from the fact that they finally do it), will be in the companion book. THAT BOOK WILL BE FREE. :) That being said...I think we've only got one or two more chapters until Xavier decides he's done walking on eggshells around her. Right now he's thinking more along the lines of 'she probably hates me right now'. So he's been giving her space.