Amelia Avery didn't know how long she had been staring into space before she finally came to her senses. She threw back the covers and got out of bed, but the moment her feet touched the floor, her legs gave out, and she nearly collapsed to her knees.
Enduring the pain racking her body, she walked to the window. She placed both hands on the frame and gazed at the scenery outside.
Her mind drifted back to scenes from her childhood.
When she was little, whenever Cassian Jennings came over to play with her brother, she loved to follow him around. Back then, she simply thought that out of all the older boys, Cassian was the gentlest and most handsome.
Tristan, on the other hand, always had such a cold expression that he scared her. And Ian Shaw was the biggest prankster of them all, so she always had to worry about him teasing her.
That was why she only ever wanted to be close to Cassian.
