Because at that exact moment… something touched his thigh.
Jace's hand.
Jay froze. His spine straightened like he'd been plugged into electricity. His eyes widened so fast it looked cartoonish, and he turned his head very, very slowly to look at the culprit sitting beside him.
Jace was smirking.
Jay's voice cracked. "W–what are you doing…?"
Jace raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Did I startle you?"
And in that instant, Jay finally understood Bella's strange reaction from a few minutes earlier. The realization struck him so sharply that he clamped his mouth shut at once, deciding it was much safer for his sanity to stay completely quiet.
Meanwhile, Leo looked at Jace and Jay with a frown so heavy it could bend steel, and a ridiculous suspicion tiptoed into his mind before he forced himself to ignore it.
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