Anastasia’s POV

My world came crumbling before my own eyes, that moment I found him standing beside a man, he had a gun in his hands, I stood gapping at him, trembling with uncertainty, I couldn’t be real, but my eyes strolled over to the man who laid in a pool of his own blood, immediately my body heated up.

Jace had just shot the guard who was meant to follow me out today, he didn’t deserve it, I made him stay behind, he shouldn’t be lying there, it’s all my fault, how heartless could he be?

I took to my heels, running down the rolls of stairs, “What have...