Chapter 11 Lena's POV The car came first. The crunch of gravel, an engine that cut off, and then the sudden stillness that follows an unannounced arrival. I was in the library, really reading this time, when I heard the sounds from down below. I didn't think anything of them – cars came and went with a frequency I was still trying to map. And then I heard her voice. It came through the floor, through the walls, like it always did. Sophia always seemed to carry, not in the sense that she was loud – that she wasn’t – but in the way her words were all arranged before she spoke them, like a carefully thought-out melody. I remained in the library. Fifteen minutes later. Twenty. I turned pages without really seeing words, listening to the faint sounds from below. Then the door to the library opened. Sophia stood there in cream colored something that looked expensive, owning everything within reach just by standing near it. Her eyes went to mine immediately, like she’d known where I
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