h Henderson. He must have heard from the scout. His fac

aid she' s never seen a talent like you. The unive

he tears, the way I was holdi

rong? What

, blocking the doorway. He hel

see this, Coa

in. The color drained from his face. He looked up from the paper, not at Leo, but at me. T

r carefully and ha

is voice hollow. "M

no. You don'

a sentence. "It' s not for you. You should think about community col

his car and drove away, leaving a cloud of dust

ppeared. The man who had been my biggest c

aking with a pain that had

r?" I whispered.

ask of misery. "It' s to protect yo

the world spinning around me. The beating was bad, but the betrayal

ed was the sound of a dis