Jade

　　Resettling on the couch, he turned his intense gaze on me, causing me to feel uncomfortably self-conscious under his scrutiny. They always stared at me as if I were a piece of meat and they were hungry animals, starving for weeks.

　　"So, where were we?" he inquired.

　　"I'm not your mate. I rejected both of you," I stated firmly.

　　"But neither of us accepted that rejection," Chase interjected, his footsteps echoing as he approached, ...