When Allison saw the jade bracelet on his wrist, her breath stopped. She quickly walked up to him and reached for it. “That’s mine! How did my bracelet end up with you?”
Jareth raised his hand over his head. With their height difference, Allison couldn’t reach it even when she stood on her toes.
She jumped twice, but it only made her gasp in pain.
Jareth tilted his head and watched her struggle. “It’s yours? I thought it belonged to the pawn shop.”
Allison glared up at him. “You investigated me?”
I had pawned that bracelet before I ran into him. For him to have it now meant he had looked into me afterward.
“But pawn shops have confidentiality policies–”
Jareth interrupted in a flat tone. “Policies bend to money. Do you think buying your bracelet was difficult?”
Allison had no respo
