Chapter 12 THE FIRST KISS

​The kitchen island was cold, but the heat radiating between them was enough to sear. Jax's mouth was a storm, punishing and possessive, and Elias met him with a desperate, starved hunger that Jax hadn't expected. This wasn't the reclusive billionaire or the anxious tech genius; this was a man who had been hollowed out by loneliness, finally findin