I avoided Jax for the rest of the day, or at least I tried to but I couldn't really avoid Jax because he somehow seemed to exist everywhere.
I would walk into a room and feel him even before I saw him.
It was exhausting.
“You are glaring at your food.” someone said.
I looked up from my untouched dinner to find Dante watching me from across the table.
“I am thinking.”
He raised his eyebrow. “About committing a homicide?”
“That too.”
Dante almost smiled before returning to his drink.
Dinner was strangely quiet tonight. Most of the estate guards kept their distance from me now and I didn't really know if it was because of what happened at the construction site.
I noticed that every time someone looked at me too long, I remembered the sound of bone snapping beneath my hands.
My st
