Xandros POV

I wasn’t exaggerating when I said she was making me lose my senses.

My ability to speak or even breathe—started to feel like a burden lodged in my throat.

“This has nothing to do with my mother…” Jayden said. Her voice shivered as the bed dipped when she arched backward.

“So can you swear to me, on your life, that you didn’t approach my niece because of your mother?”

Her silence thickened the air, and for a moment, I thought she would defend herself.

Tell me I was ...