VERA'S POV

The attorney might be right about his advice, but I didn’t want to accept it, not because I thought he was wrong, but because I believed I could conquer my troubles alone.

I had come to talk to Jackson, hoping he would change his mind and let me go. But everything that happened instead scared me even more. I couldn’t ignore the venom that would've laced his bite had he not stopped himself.

Watching him unleash his anger on the wall made me tremble. If those punches had landed on my face, I wouldn’t just be in a hospital, I might not survive it. That thought chilled me...