Jake’s POV
Panicked, I held onto Amelia’s shoulders while she seemed to have a breakdown right in front of me. I didn’t know what to do, and my questions to her were going unanswered.
For a moment, she hadn’t even seemed to be here with me, like she was lost in some kind of dream… or perhaps a memory.
I braced myself for her recovery, for when she might tell me what she actually experienced.
Instead, as she started to recover, finally blinking away the tears, she said, “It was nothing. I’m fine.”
This was the boldest lie I’d ever heard in my life. People didn’t just break down like this for no reason.
“Did something happen?” I asked her.
“No,” she said, avoiding my gaze. “I need to clean this up now.”
“Forget it,” I said. “We have staff that will do it.” Already, I could see some o
