**Jake’s POV **
I know she’s lying. Not about everything, but there’s something bothering her, and I don’t like that. I especially don’t like that she doesn’t feel comfortable, or is too embarrassed to share whatever it is. I’m a fixer, it’s what I do, but how can I fix something if I don’t know what it is I need to fix?
Poppy keeps eating as if nothing happened, carefully cutting her pancakes into small pieces while Leo and I pretend the conversation never happened. The conversation about her flinching. About the moment earlier when something scared her badly enough that she jerked like someone had shouted in her ear or pinched her.
She said it was a muscle twitch, but my wolf disagrees, and he’s been uneasy ever since. Not aggressive, or protective in the usual way either, just… aler
