If she was embarrassed, Jasper was none the wiser, although he should have been. All he knew was that they'd been lightly flirting and it had taken a sharp turn that he'd not been expecting.
After a moment of staring at the cake, he finally spoke. "Alice?" he tried, opening and closing his mouth again and again as he searched for the right words. "Are you okay?" he asked. "I mean, is there anything you need to tell me?"