e gray light of dawn c

weater, took three slow breaths

s laugh, soft and real in a way it had never once been directed at A

of perfectly toasted bread. Danita smiled, touching his arm. It

attered it jus

eat. She forced herself down the

the moment her foot c

ing," she

le

ooked out the window, through Abig

he table. Two placemat

door. "Your name was not on the list for breakfast service t

how it was

, filled it with tap water from the sideboard pitcher, and sat at the fa

scraped the floor, Da

r nose. She folded her napkin with precise, deliberate move

without

lazer. "We leave for school in ten minu

the enormous room, ho

t perform. She would treat this house like a hostile hotel, and she would expect absolutely

atch. Niall, her foster brother, had pressed it into her hands at the Ohio bus station

Then she let go, squared her should

ed forward, slamming her spine against the leather. She didn't make a sound. She

ratory School, she was going to need every bit o