EvelynAs I reached the landing, I heard him ordering the driver to park my car around back, and in the echo of his voice was the fact: This was his house, now, and I’d just become a visitor in my own life.I walked the hallway toward Ava’s room, and I found her door shut, but not locked.I knocked,
EvelynThe road home was a straight line out of the university town and into the bare hills. Two hours of highway, then a climb up the switchbacks until the world dropped away and only the scrub pines and stone fences remained.Ava didn’t look out the window, not once. Her eyes were on the back of t
I stared, then looked at her. “Is this real?”She nodded. “That’s larimar. Very rare. I had a friend in the Caribbean source it. Took almost three months to find the right cut.” She shrugged, like it was nothing, like she hadn’t just spent a quarter of a year tracking down a rock for me.“It’s beaut
SofiaI don’t even remember watching them leave. I just stood by the dorm window, counting the cracks in the glass, the beads of sweat dripping down the back of my shirt, and by the time I focused on the parking lot below, Levi’s car was already gone and so was every noise that mattered.I tried rep
EvelynHe just stood there, hands in his pockets, looking past me at the night. “If he does, he hasn’t objected,” Levi said. “I’m accountable for my own actions.”That wasn’t a yes, but it wasn’t a no either. I wanted to throttle him. “Don’t dodge me,” I growled. “If you’re operating off the leash,
EvelynI stood in the corridor a long time after she left, letting the echoes settle in the doorframe and the carpet, letting them drift down the empty hall until it was just me and the old wall clock grinding out each second with a plastic click.But then I saw them—Ava and Levi, already halfway do