JASMINE
" Die?"
I look up at Sloane, she sounded panicked. meeting her terrified eyes, I had to ask.
" What have you done"
Her eyes dart around as she fumble with her words. " Three days ago,” she started in a rush, “when you were in the shower, Xavier kept trying to talk to me. I....I was still shaken, Jasmine. After what happened in that cell... what they almost did... I couldn’t even look at him without remembering it ."
She began to ramble "And he wouldn’t stop. He kept saying it was fate, that I couldn’t run from it, from him. And I..I panicked.”
Her voice dropped to a whisper. “I told him I reject the union fate gave us.”
The words hit me like a slap.
Oh s**t!
" Luckily " I say, trying to keep my voice gentle. " that’s not a formal rejection, Sloane. You didn’t invoke the b
