JASMINE Everyone has their eyes on me at that moment. The crowd is curious, almost excited even. I feel the buzz among them crawling like goosebumps on my flesh. I am stunned by the words that just came out of his mouth. My jaw drops, a sharp pain tugs at the back of my head as a scene from the coven makes a cameo in my head. I blink severally and catch Andre’s stunned gaze. Even Alec’s eyes do not hold the same impassive gaze anymore, but he hardly reacts. My mother? Neither of the three of us knows anything about my mother, that’s probably why Alec even shows a subtle hint of surprise in his cold eyes. How is it possible that they know my mother? Her absence in my childhood has so turned her into a mythical creature to me that standing in front of someone who has met her feels

