Jake’s POV
Sending Amelia with Damien was one of the hardest things I ever had to allow. For six years, I had sought to keep this very scenario from happening, hoping to keep Amelia as far from Damien as possible, and therefore keep her safe.
Yet, for all my efforts, the only thing I had succeeded in doing was putting her even further into harm’s way. I’d exposed her to Sienna, who had always disliked her. But even I hadn’t accounted for just how deeply that hatred ran.
I had left Amelia exposed and vulnerable, helping her to trust one of the people who had set her up to be killed.
Flipping through the evidence now while sitting in my office, looking more closely, I felt my stomach churn.
How could I ever have trusted her? Hadn’t she done enough while she was here to warrant my mistru
