Chapter 62

HAZEL'S POV;

I hadn't expected Xavier to say those words of rejection to me and when he had done so, I had been extremely shocked.

He had asked me to but I didn't want to. I have never thought of rejecting him but tonight, he brought it up the second time. I thought it was something he had said out of anger and he really meant it.

I felt the slow burn in my chest, getting to my head after he had said those words and it took a little thing for me not to burst into tears.

I was struggling. I was fighting a lot on my own and I didn't want to involve him in it. But all he saw was me not wanting to talk to him about anything.

"He can't read your fucking mind, Iris," Ted said.

I sighed. He was right. I shouldn't have expected him to understand me. I really should have not.

But he had rejected me and that alone made me so angry. I had walked back to the warrior's building and when Felix had asked me why I returned, I grabbed him by the collar and flung him out before telling him to ask his f