C68 I Am the Only One!

Aarhea’s Point of View

I watched him from across the hall.

Jake was laughing with a few warriors, but it wasn’t real. His smile was thin, his shoulders tense, his eyes too distant. To anyone else, he looked fine. But I knew better. Every line of his body screamed of a storm raging inside him.

I’d seen it for days.

At night, when he thought I was asleep, he’d sit awake, staring at nothing