“I’ll have to figure this out later,” Jamie’s thoughts focused on one thing, “I need to make her see I’m not her enemy.”
Jamie stood up. He was trying to find a coherent line of thought, but all the different things he was worried about were clashing in his brain. It felt like he had a room full of TVs in his head, and he was trying to watch all of them at once.
“Akiko is what’s important. You can worry about everything else when she isn’t literally falling apart in front of you.”
He fell to his knees in front of Akiko, the weight of her despair more than he could handle. She instinctively reached out to him and paused with her hands in his hair. He closed his eyes, taking in her scent and feeling her skin brush against his face as he moved his cheek to meet her hand. Jamie opened his
