JASMINE POV
Today was the day I was meant to die from a heart attack.
I had pleaded with Cory to let me get off the call and that we would speak more about this 'surprise' he said he had for me over lunch tomorrow, but he refused. Now, imagine the surprise I got when Alaric barged into my room unannounced.
It was almost as if he had heard or seen me talking to Cory with the way he barged in.
Now, here I was, kneeling and crying at his mercy to save the one I truly loved.
But what did he want from me? What would he have me do to prove all he just said?
I wasn't his. I'd never been his. I didn't want to be his. I want to be Cory's.
Whatever delusions or fantasies he harbored about us in that dark, possessive mind of his, none of them were real.
Alaric remains my stepbrother, and no matter what he says or thinks, calling me MINE doesn't make me HIS.
But the way he looked at me now, as if I was something he'd already claimed, made me doubt if I could escape his reality.
