Primal Jealousy

Valentin’s POV

Jealousy was a very strange emotion.

Primal. Irrational. The sort of thing that coils itself around logic and chokes it until it sputters and dies.

And I had always believed myself above it.

I hadn’t felt true jealousy since high school. A lifetime ago. Even then, it had been fleeting; easily smothered under the weight of rationality and detached analysis. My then-girlfriend, Chloe,