Chapter 23 Jasmine's POV I woke up before my alarm even sounded, to go to school. It had been that way since Saturday morning when I returned from the cottage with Hardin, no longer a virgin. I had thought that there was something that would change in my face or skin when I finally did what others my age had been doing for a very long time. But instead there was nothing but a hollowness in my chest because I couldn't even be happy about what had happened when the next morning, I had to remind myself that the person that had been my first hated me beyond redemption. And it wasn't like I was head over heels in love with him either like all those novels that I had read made the female lead to be. Hardin made it really hard to like him. He had looked so shocked like it was impossible fo