She ended the call and immediately dialed another number.
Jace watched her for a moment. He knew that look. Harper covered fear with sarcasm so often that people forgot she was capable of being genuinely terrified. She could insult a man while bleeding, make jokes at a funeral, and threaten to poison somebody's coffee without blinking.
But there was nothing funny about her expression now.
His eyes drifted toward the staircase leading to the bedrooms.
Sage was upstairs.
He knew she was hurting. He knew she had cried after Victor threatened her, and he knew Mason had gone after her.
He wanted to check on her. He wanted to see with his own eyes that she was all right, even if she refused to look at him.
He wanted to explain that he hadn't stopped caring about her, that the distance b
