Jade'e POV
The guys are really starting to get on my nerves, but what can I do? I have to trust that my mother was right about me. I was stronger than I knew and more powerful than all the other women in our family who came before. Even she herself. I didn't understand when I was young, but I am starting to see it now. I see it every time I make my children laugh. In the smiles on the faces of my customers. Even in my own brother's face when he saw the lives I had carried and brought into this world.
A part of me wondered why Bela was so stand-offish. He smiled very little. I could have sworn when we were kids he at least smiled at me a little. When I was 15, there was a moment when he looked at me like I was air itself. It only lasted a moment, then he turned cold.
My mind was still r
