MINE TO KEEP.

JASON.

Ximena’s actions caught me completely off guard. I hadn’t expected her to be there— standing by the stairs, hearing every word Isabella and I had been saying. —let alone pretending we were just business partners.

That lie—we were business associates and she’d only come to drop a message? Damn. Bold move. I almost wanted to applaud her for it.

She could lie all she wanted, but I saw it — the jealousy, the heat under her words. She was burning, and she ...