Layla’s POV
Everyone else had retired to their chambers, I was in mine. Thinking about what Donna had said. She wasn't exactly wrong but she wasn't entirely right.
I mean, I knew Jaxon-Alexander, was a threat to me. I knew that the most logical thing to do was to run away as far as I could, but I couldn't bring myself to do that.
It would shatter him, even though he was pretending like it wouldn't.
The night was too quiet, I almost thought everyone had retired early for the night…. Everyone except for me. I couldn't sleep, not yet.
I lay in bed, wondering what Jaxon was doing in his chambers, and wondering why I was far away in mine and not in his.
Maybe he didn't want me to be near him at the moment, otherwise, he would have sought me.
A piercing scream went through my ears,
