Chapter 17.
Jasper’s POV.
I sat in angered silence as I watched Keira take out the tray. A part of me felt guilty for being harsh. But another part, the part I thought to be more rational, justified my actions. She just had to pick the wrong times to ruin everything. Again, I blamed the accident for all of this. If I had never been in the god-damned accident I would never have had to sit and watch my mother pick a wife for me. Not at all. I would have drawn out the terms of a contract marriage myself.
What use was marrying a woman and having kids anyway? Nina had understood this perfectly. All she wanted was to travel round the world and I was happy with that too. But this thing my father wanted of me in his will— to have an heir— it just felt too superimposed.
Maybe I was only afraid
