Bye Jasper.

Phoenix:

We walk into the back of the house without a single care.

I know Raph is confused by what I said. 

I hadn't told him about the interaction I had with Jalesa right before I got home or what she had told me.

If Jasper had continued to have some sort of relationship with her, even as a friend, without ever mentioning a single thing to me, then he obviously had decisions to make.

None of which involved me.

I was still in a war with my own mind.

He knew I had another mate, and I hadn't talked about him at all about it. To be fair, he never asked. I thought this was him being respectful and giving me space to figure it out, but I started to doubt that.

Was I really so naive to everything?

This was still no excuse to have me in a settlement with his ex-fiance without saying anything.

Was he trying to keep her on the back burner in case things didn't work out for us because I had a second mate?