"You don"t understand anything!" Jim snapped back, shoving him away. "My feelings for Amelia—" He didn"t get to finish. Luke"s fist, fueled by bottled-up jealousy and a sense of betrayal, connected with Jim"s face with a force that seemed to tear the air! *Thwack!* A sickening sound. Jim, caught off guard, stumbled backwards, a trickle of blood immediately seeping from the corner of his mouth. "Jim!" I screamed, rushing over to steady him. Seeing the injury on his face, my heart clenched violently, a mix of rage and** surging through me. I looked up at Luke, my voice disbelieving. "What are you doing?! How could you hit him?!" Luke, seeing me appear out of nowhere, seeing my undisguised concern for Jim, saw the anger in his eyes replaced by something deeper, something closer to pained disa
