"So... what do you want to talk about...?"
Jacob asked, his voice laced with a caution that bordered on suspicion. He maintained a strategic distance, his body angled away from her as if she were a volatile chemical experiment that might detonate at any moment.
He was still trying to solve the Everly-shaped Rubik's Cube that had been dumped into his lap. How? How could his own brother, Jeremy, and Cassian, two of the most intelligent, discerning men he knew, be so utterly captivated by this... this force of chaos?
Yes, she was unique. Yes, she was undeniably strong, a fact he respected in a purely abstract sense. But she was also rude, inelegant, and conducted herself with all the grace of a demolition derby.
