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Jasether with demons, to the point where she partially blamed Adrian for her boyfriend’s death as well as her awful treatment in his for terrible, like trying to get him killed? It wouldn’t be hard for her to reach Demetrius All she would’ve had to do was say his name in an unbroken mirror, and he would appear

Costa knew that, too, and as he’d toldAdrian for what had happened to him while he was enslaved in Adrian’s reale his friend To to help Adrian and me, and while it was minions who’d shot him, maybe Costa blamed Adrian, too After all, Toet shot if not for Adrian asking for To in ht hate Adrian, but she’d never riskkilled, too, and she kneas nuht likehim over to Demetrius, he wouldn’t call it off on h a lot, but at the end of the day, I didn’t mean nearly as much to hi, and her screech cut throughmatch

"You bet it is," Costa flared, his dark brown eyes alitation "I knoasn’t me, and I ith Jasmine both times, so it couldn’t have been her, either!"

"You sure about that?" Adrian asked, his tone softer, but no less harsh "She never left your side to go into another rooaze swung to Adrian "It’s not her," I snapped

Froave me, he’d also come to his own conclusions about who’d done it, only he’d landed on Jasmine

"It’s not her," I insisted "Jasmine would never do that to me, and Costa admitted before that he’s still pissed at you! Hell, he’s also never believed I’d be able to wield the staff without getting killed, so it’s not like he’d think my death would take the rest of the world doith me He already thinks everyone is doomed"

Costa replied with a burst of Greek that sounded as furious as he looked, and with his handso Whatever his tirade was, it pissed Adrian off to a fantastic degree, too, because Zach had to catch his fist before he slammed it into Costa’s face

"Was that a confession?" Jas over tothan his response "Quit acting, Jasmine! We both know it has to be you"

"Fuck you, no it isn’t!" she screamed back at him

Zach still had ahold of Adrian’s wrist, and when Adrian atterip

"Not until you are in control," Zach said coldly

"If you’d just confirm who it is, we can end all this," Adrian snarled

"No," Zach replied "Until you are able to figure it out for yourself, you are not ready to accept the truth"