Jade’s POV I paused for a second; my body trembled, but I was quick to hold back from showing my fears. “What’s going on?” I asked rhetorically, because I knew there was no one to give me an answer to that question, because the way I was shocked was the same way John is, too. “Is that Marcus Ross? For real?” I stared at the TV screen, zooming in to be sure he was really the one I had seen. Judging from the angle we were shown in the news, it looks as if his flesh was burnt. NEWSCASTER: As of yesterday, Marcus Rosso’s car somersaulted on his way to one of the grand galas—the biggest ever held in the city of New York. And just as his car turned over, it caught fire and he was burnt… “What’s going to happen to the contract we signed with them?” I flinched, trying as much as possible t

