To bed

Chapter 31

Jasmine's POV

Just when I had thought that something productive had happened last night between Hardin and I even though he remained standoffish and quiet the entire ride back to the house, I knew that we were about to take a million steps back immediately we entered the house and Lisa was the first person that we saw.

Remembering that the only reason his aunt was here was thanks to him, I shuffled from one foot to the other after her question, thinking about what she was up to now.

Looking at Hardin, she raised her eyebrows, her smile dripping with mischief as she waited for an answer.

"Well, is there something I should know, Jasmine? Could it be that you were somehow responsible for the fact that he has been staying away from his own home, while you have been here with your mother, eating and drinking and sleeping like it is your own house? I'm waiting for an answer, sweetheart" She said the sweetheart as if she was referring to a snake that she was about to hit on the he