Intercept and prevent an asset from being removed

How would you go about intercepting and preventing an asset from being removed? I suspect the image may already have been removed by the time we run "asset:remove". If so how do we tap into the actions and ask for confirmation? The reason I ask is because I want to tie a deletion in GJS to permanent deletion of images from client accounts.

editor.on('asset:remove', () => {
  if (!window.confirm("Are you sure?")) {
    // HERE I WOULD LIKE TO BREAK THE REMOVE ACTION.
    ...