Beauty Sleep - Chapter 24

Jo’s POV

I couldn’t get Shannen’s words out of my mind during training. Matthew and Jasper’s relationship has been strained since Charlotte’s death. I was there when Jasper and Charlotte first met. The mate bond may have brought them together, but they loved each other. He worshiped her, and she adored him. Their children are a piece of Charlotte. If anything, her death should have brought them closer together.

I found Matthew sitting on the front steps of the Academy. I sat next to him and looked at what he was holding. It was a picture of him and Charlotte. He was young. “She was a beautiful woman. Inside and out.” I told him. “Even to this day, I think she was too good for your dad.”

He didn’t look at me. “You knew her?”

“She turned up here at Beta Academy a few months before Jasper left. He is older than me, so I got to spend time with her after he’d gone.” I put my arm around Matthew. “Jasper made me promise to look after her until I left. Not that he wanted her to sta