Safe Haven...

JASMINE'S POV

My car screeched into Sophia's driveway twenty minutes later, tires kicking up gravel like dust from the past I couldn't outrun.

I barely had the engine off before I was out, slamming the door and sprinting through the pouring rain. My fists pounded against her front door so hard I thought the hinges might come off.

She yanked it open almost immediately. "Jazz?!"

I must've looked insane—barefoot, in soaked shorts and a thin T-shirt, hair plastered to my skin, trembling like a ghost. Her eyes widened, scanning me for injuries.

"What the hell—what happened?"

I tried to speak, but no words came out. I just shook my head, my breath catching painfully in my chest.

"I… I didn't know where else to go."

Sophia didn't hesitate.