Jasmine"Mr Warner, I didn't see you there," I almost screamed when I turned around and saw him behind me, staring at me intensely."I trust whatever was wrong with Ruby has been resolved and Alexander won't be making more appearances," He said without blinking an eyelid.Honestly the last person I expected to see today was Mr Warner and that was at twelve o'clock when he had a meeting with some group of women from a shelter. Not now, not when I just got my hot chocolate and was about to gulp it down.He took a step closer to me and I took one back."Ruby is okay now and I'm sure he wouldn't, Mr Castor doesn't even care about me," I lied through my teeth but if he believed it then that was okay.Another step closer. Another step back."Perhaps we can meet in my office later, some of the figures from the last meeting doesn't make sense and I need your help because it's your notes."My back was almost at the counter at this point and honestly, I haven't felt that amount of fear before.

Jasmine.I did not see Alexander for two days. Work was tight with the elections coming up so soon, everyone was trying to clean up their ends. So many interviews to be scheduled and parties to attend.I didn't see Ruby too. Honestly would have felt so alone if Mr Warner didn't hover around me like some sort of bodyguard and whispered the sort of things I wasn't interested in listening to.If someone had told me dinner at the family house was going to be my escape and I would have gone willingly, I would have laughed and told the person to stop whatever cheap drugs they were on.But there I was, on a Saturday night, sitting across my mother with Amanda at the side. Charles sat at the head of the table. I always felt like an imposter when we were gathered around like this, of course Alexander was around and would always try to make me feel included by doing silly things."So how much progress have you made with the plan?" Charles suddenly asked, deviating from the conversation he was h

Jasmine.I didn't know how to bring up the news about Paris to Alexander. I couldn't tell Gia or Ruby because they knew nothing about my office scandal.Alexander had invited me over tonight and for the first time in a while, I felt like cancelling the invitation.The mirror in my bathroom turned out to the perfect object to fixate on while I thought about my life choices. I stared at my reflection, noting each and every imperfections on my face while applying a decent size of makeup on my face.I used the brown lip liner to line my lips, dabbed a bit on it before applying lipgloss to make my lips look glossy. Would Alexander be disappointed or mad at me perhaps for agreeing to go to Paris with Mr Warner.Would he come with me as a way to protect me? If I went on the trip with Mr Warner, I could finally finish what I came for and just disappear without Charles running down my throat alongside my mother.If I decided to ignore it and go to London with Alexander, who knew what would hap

Jasmine.I enjoyed watching Alexander sleep, it was almost like watching a baby because of how vulnerable he was at that point.His long lashes fluttered a bit, touching his cheekbones. One of the lashes was a bit askew and I almost touched him just to straighten it. His lips looked so kissable.If he wasn't so deep in sleep, he would probably chuckle and talk in that deep morning voice that seemed to send tingles up my spine and set my panties in a twist.I escaped from the house in the dead of the night, few hours after the helicopter brought us back to the city, few hours after I had my last mind-blowing sex with Alexander and few hours after I finally made my decision.I left a handwritten letter to soften the blow of my departure. My home felt like it wasn't even mine anymore since I spent a lot of time at Alexander's and most of my things were there. Would he have them shipped back to me or perhaps burnt them so he would have no excuse to talk to me again.Everything I needed f

Alexander.She left.Like a fucking coward, she escaped at the dead of the night when I was sleeping and went with that bastard to the heaven knows where.She even left a note. One I didn't get to read because of Gia and a friend of Jasmine's emergence into the case when I first saw it and then I got too mad to look at it when they told me what she did."I told you she was going to do something reckless and you blew it, you fucking blew it," The tiny girl she worked with in Ambrose Warner's office kept on saying as she paced around my living room.She had sent multiple messages to Jasmine's cell and received no reply yet we all knew Jasmine was getting them because it kept on showing delivered.My sweet little flower. What had she gotten herself into?Gia on the other hand was at the other end of the room, looking for clues on where Jasmine might have been dragged off to."I can't believe she would risk herself like that without even telling me the truth," Ruby continued, "She couldn'