Amber’s POV
I was trying to act normal for Alice, but truthfully my heart was racing out of control. She didn’t ask many questions, but I wasn’t sure how successfully Julian and I were keeping things from her. She was more observant than we gave her credit for, and seemed on edge, though not as much as I was.
I left her in front of her cartoons, while I stood near the bar, close enough to keep an eye on her, far enough away to twist my phone nervously in my hands hopefully out of her view.
When it finally rang, I had so much pent-up anxiety that I nearly dropped it.
Seeing Julian’s name on the screen, I quickly answered it.
“I messed up,” he said as soon as I did. “Tony baited me and I fell right into it. Now he has a clip of me threatening to kill him. He’s already putting it out to
