~ALLISON’S POV~
Ash was worried. Really worried.
I could see it in the way his jaw was locked, the way his fingers kept raking through his already-messy hair, the way he wasn’t saying a damn word.
And Ash? Silent? That never happened.
But what unsettled me wasn’t him—it was Amanda.
I’d spent a month envying her. The effortless way she carried herself, the way she turned heads without even trying, the way she always seemed like she was in control.
But here, in this place? She was different.
Like this was her real world, the one she didn’t show to people like me. And for the first time, I wasn’t jealous of her.
I was terrified for her. But Amanda wasn’t my problem.
Cara was.
I glanced at Ash, who was still on the phone, pacing back and forth like a caged animal, his v
