Jackson's Point of View
Uncle Ben better have a damn good reason for making me leave my mate like that. I was furious that he had left her unprotected with Stacey! There was no way they were friends. Stacey would have an ulterior motive - She had always hated Rose.
The three of us walked for about 20 minutes until, for no reason I could fathom, we stopped dead in our tracks.
"So you wanna tell me what's going on, Beta?" I snapped at Ben.
"You don't get to use that tone with me, Jackson! I might have to let your father talk to me like s**t, but I don't have to take it from you."
I didn't say a word in response. I glared at him and tried to stare him down. This lasted for a minute until Jude cleared his throat behind us.
"Look, I appreciate you're both trying to win some sort of
