JASMINE POV
"Mum? What's she doing here?" She never told me she was coming. Oh, Selene!
"Oh. I must have forgotten to tell you," he said so casually. "She called earlier."
He knew she was coming? Why wasn't he pulling away, then?
"Let me go! She's coming!" I panicked when I heard her closer to Alaric's room.
He didn't move, his gaze locked on mine, a wicked grin playing at the corners of his mouth. "Why should I give up the first best opportunity of making you mine, Jasmine?" he asked, leaning even closer to me and making sure to pin me securely to the wall.
"What... what the fuck do you mean, Alaric?" I asked as the realization began to sink in.
No. He couldn't mean what he just said.
He wanted us to get caught.
I searched his eyes for any form of understanding, but there was none. All I saw was a cold, unfeeling man. It felt like I was standing before a stranger... Someone who fed on control.
