Chapter 128: The Impossible Choice

Jasper’s

I stared at Mara as if she had completely lost her mind. The sheer shock of her words felt like a physical blow to my chest. My voice exploded out of me before I had any chance to stop it. “What?! You are absolutely crazy! I will not kill Ella! She has done nothing wrong to deserve this. Why on earth would I ever kill her?”

For a single second, I thought I saw something flicker deep in her eyes—it might have been annoyance, or maybe even a ...