September, 2014
He couldn’t afford to waste his efforts on someone who wasn’t worthy. Not with how the majority of Xavier’s would view his courtship of Jessie Vale; but they were clueless. She’d fulfilled her end, so she was rewarded – that simple. He set the light-blue box on her dresser, contented he’d been right about Preview. Then he caught a flash of his eyes in her mirror; and remembered they weren’t as bright as they used to be...
Her hair brush flung off the table and was sent across the room, Hellion had to stop it in midair – he couldn’t dwell on the past.