Jem Pov
I paced, unsure what else to do. I told her I was heading to the stream with the others, but I couldn’t do it. I wanted to be alone, to sit there and think...not that I was doing any sitting. Ana’s words kept floating around in my head. Aislyn standing in front of a man with long dark gray hair and piercing blue eyes. That was Jaxx, I knew it was. In his bedroom, why was she in his bedroom? And in a purple dress, that was the dress that I bought for her; I had half a mind to go into her things and burn it, just for the spite of it all.
I sighed, sinking down to my knees on the hard ground. What did I expect? She had to marry Jaxx, of course she was going to. I was too scared to ask her to choose me, but still...I had hoped she would. Especially knowing now that he was he
