Wrapped in the strength of Leo's arms, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this. He’s everything I've been craving. Everything I need. He's the man of my dreams and yet he comes from my past.

Piecing together a new life with him and trying to understand his conflicting emotions hasn’t been easy. I don’t know what’s going on with him right now, but he’s dealing with something he’s not ready to share. I can only hope he’s starting to realize there’s something more between us than just sex.

Leo pulls back and looks at me, his gaze intense, and I wonder if he’s finally going to open up to me, an early morning knock at the door interrupts us.

Leo seems relieved as he moves to answer it. I guess he got out of this one. But I’m pretty pissed. It's taken forever to get Leo to open up to me and just when he was about to, we’re interrupted. And who the hell is coming around at six in the morning? It better be important.

I let him take care of it, and I make my way to the kitchen where that fancy espresso machine is all mine. There's nothing better to wake up to than your own personal Starbucks. This thing must've cost him twenty thousand dollars, which I know is just a drop in the bucket for Leo.

He really has made a name for himself, a life. Though his abandonment still stings, I’m starting to want to trust him again, and that's scary territory. I opened my heart before to this gorgeous man and to do so again might be a fool's mistake.

Leo comes into the kitchen with the last person on the planet I ever expected to see.

"Jax!” I pull my robe more tightly around myself and cinch the belt. “What are you doing here?” I haven’t seen him since I told him I was going to start working at the Inner Sanctum. He hasn’t spoken to me.

He's all enraged now, his face bright red, and I brace myself for what I know is coming.

"No, Sienna, the question is, what are you doing here?" He turns to Leo. "What is she doing here, man? You promised to stay away from her."

Jax pisses me off when he acts like this. He has no control over my life and I don't see why he doesn't get that.

"Jax! Leave him alone. This is my life."

I say the words but it's like I’m not even here. They both completely ignore me.

Leo crosses his arms across his broad chest "Jax, I told you that it needs to look like we're dating. The most believable way to achieve that is by making it seem like we're living together. It's just temporary."

He takes in the scene...the absence of Leo's shirt. I take it in, too.

And then Jax looks over at my bed head and tiny silk robe. It doesn't take a genius to see what's gone on here…and we have history already that points to exactly what is going on here.

"This is going too far. You're exploiting the situation. You guys are obviously having sex." Jax looks like he’s about to bust a blood vessel in his forehead.

Leo approaches him, holding his hands out in attempt to placate my brother. "Come on, Jax. You're being a little extreme, don't you think?"

My brother turns aggressive, getting right up in Leo’s face. It's this tendency that has strained our relationship. He's always been too damn protective.

He sticks a finger in Leo’s face. "I told you to stay away from her. It looks like your cock just couldn't resist, could it, Leo? What's new?" he snarls.

Leo instantly shoves him back and the two guys start throwing punches. They’re both huge and there's little I can do to stop it.

I try to break them up. "Stop it, you guys. Come on. You're scaring me."

My cries fall on deaf ears. The two of them go at it like testosterone fueled teenagers. I can't even believe I'm in this position. They could kill each other and it feels like there's nothing I can do to stop it. I pull at Leo and beg for them to stop. Finally, I guess they wear themselves out.

"Had enough?" Leo asks.

"You're the one who's banging my sister."

"Don't talk about her like that, asshole. You don't own her."

"Well, neither do you."

It's time for me to step in and to at least say something.

"So what if we are, Jax? What are you going to do about it? I've had enough of you butting into my life. Why are you even here?"

My words stop him in his tracks and I suddenly see that there's more to the story of why Jax has shown up here in the early morning hours. Something I’m completely unaware of.

What has my brother gotten himself into now? I didn't even know that he and Leo were still in contact. I thought they had a huge falling out years ago.

I repeat myself. "Why are you here?"

Surely he can't be here to walk in on Leo and me. There has to be more.

He puts himself back together and then raises his arms as if to say he surrenders.

"Fine. I'm here because I'm being blackmailed okay? I didn't know who else to turn to."

Leo and I both stare at him in shock. My brother is being blackmailed?

That is so unlike him. Usually he's on top of his game and he pulls the whole family together under his wing with his political power.

We're penniless, but Jax has been working to rebuild the family name and bring honor back to the Reids. He's been working tirelessly.

But then to hear that some asshole is trying to destroy all that, to bring our family back down to the trenches…well, it's unbearable.

My instinct is to protect my brother, to help him out, and I know that’s Leo's instinct as well. We used to be inseparable, the three of us. Can we find that again? Can we band together and help Leo in his time of need, despite all the shit we’ve been through?

Lee offers him a seat at the breakfast table outside on the terrace.

We drink coffee and go over the details until the sun is rising high in the sky and the desert heat starts to descend upon us. His story is chilling, and all I know is that there has to be a way to fix this.

Because basically? Well, it's all my fault.