“Grayson, I think you might’ve misunderstood what Mom and Max were telling you,” I said, considering setting my cheeseburger aside to have this discussion with her since it might get heated, but I was so hungry, I kept chewing. “I’m not moving.”“Sorry, sis, but you are. We all are,” she said, defiant as usual. “I know

 “Do I even want to know why you’re grinning at me like that?” I asked, my voice a gravely whisper.Sam brushed my hair back from my face, his hand resting on my cheek, his thumb caressing my cheekbone. I had to open my eyes now. “

Mom and Max were going back to Great Falls to look for a place to live while they waited for Mom to get that job. They’d made the announcement as we were eating breakfast. All of us except for Gray, that is. She’d been up until the wee hours of the morning listening to music, so chances were she’d be sleeping all day. Max had nailed her window shut while I was sleeping the night before, so there was no way she was getting back out that way. I prayed he came up with no reason to do the same to mine since that was the way Sam had gotten in. Once they moved, I got the impression Grandma wouldn’t mind if he came in the front door and announced to her that he was go

 Grandma was cooking when I got back to the house. I knew that meant she was feeling better because she had only stopped cooking when she’d gotten sick. Before that, it was about all she ever did. “Oh, are you back?” she asked me,

My parents weren’t crazy about me making the trip to Great Falls with Sam, not because they didn’t trust him, although I’m not sure how much my mom did trust him, at least as far as keeping his hands to himself was concerned, which was a legitimate concern, but because his truck was almost as old as she was. That’s what she said, anyway, when I asked if I could go. She said we could borrow the minivan, but the idea of me asking Sam to drive my mom’s van seemed ridiculous to me. Max didn’t offer his truck, so I just had to assure my mom that, if something happened and Sam’s truck broke down, I could fix it with my magic. It was the only thing t