9
CHLOE
I concentrated on eating the maraschino cherry out of my Shirley Temple and looked out at the gorgeous view, pretending to ignore the fact Jax was looking at me like a hungry beast who just spotted a rabbit with a wounded leg.
“You never explained what rattled you in the store the first day I met you,” he growled.
I thought for a moment and said, “Have you ever heard of triggers?”
“You mean like the kind you find on a g*n?
“Kind of. More like something happens to you in the present that triggers a really terrible memory. At a sensory level, it feels familiar, so you connect it to an experience when you felt that way. Your reptilian brain responds as if it’s in danger and reacts as if it’s back in that really unpleasant situation from the past, even when it’s not.”
“So, what
