Chapter 33: It's Complicated

**Jax**

My heart felt like it was attempting a violent prison break with how hard it thrashed in my chest. The seconds ticked by, each one longer than the last. I was starting to think she wasn't going to answer me, but then she straightened, her arms fell to her sides, and she sighed. I braced myself for whatever method of heartbreak she was about to inflict on me. Because what else could she be preparing to do?

She was an all-powerful Pendragon witch, and I was one of the infamous cursed Halstead vampires. Our kinds didn't exactly have a history of getting along. The universe really did have a twisted sense of humor. Or maybe this was my penance for all the terrible things I'd done, for how I'd destroyed Hannah, how I'd betrayed Chloe, how I'd hurt my brother by falling in love with his soulmate.