AUTHOR ~•~ Marika Lee could not take her eyes off him. Had she ever been able to? She saw the lines on his forehead, the creases between his brows, the hardness of his chiseled jaw and the rage glistering in his sapphire blue eyes. She did not care about the boy he had gracefully humiliated, nothing about him concerned her. All she was worried about was the fact that he seemed tired, too tired to even stand erect. As he pushed away from the table and walked towards the door of the cafeteria, Marika struggled to stay put in her seat. She was not supposed to run after him, she was supposed to turn to Renee and shake her head, wondering what the young man had gotten himself into again. She was supposed to just mind her business, Jacob was not supposed to be her concern, at all

