Jacob said that it would take him at least a week to find anything out. So I knew that there would be no point in me looking for anything from him before that. I wasn’t actively avoiding him, these past three days since we had laid down our terms, and I didn’t feel like he was actively avoiding me.

But like two ships in the night, we probably passed each other more than once in this huge mansion. We were just both consumed with our own thoughts.

I knew that I ...