Adah's POV
I tossed and turned in my bed, unable to get Jayden's words out of my head. "I'm going to make you fall for me." The audacity of it all made my blood boil.
Who does he think he is? I punched my pillow in frustration. They tried to kill me. They pushed me off a building, and now he wants me to fall for him? Is he completely insane?
The memory of last night's kiss kept creeping back, uninvited and unwanted. The way his lips had felt against mine, soft yet firm, the way my traitorous body had responded for just a moment before sanity kicked in. No. Absolutely not. I hate him. I hate all of them.
"It's impossible," I muttered to myself, sitting up in bed. "There's no way I could ever give my heart to someone who hurt me so badly. Mate bond or not, it's never happening."
The nex
