An attack on my father.The words dance around my head, even as Declan said it was unsafe to talk about it in school, he had a place we could talk without worrying abut anyone eavesdropping. He went down to retrieve Holls, Stephen and Noah. “Nathan says he’ll join us there.” Noah says when he reaches us.There’s a pang in my chest when I see him, I long to hold him.He looks up at me, a small, soft smile playing across his lips, then he mouths the word, ‘sorry’. I shake my head, he had nothing to apologize for, it’s our fate. Holls, ever perceptive, looks between Noah and I, I avoid her gaze. But I can’t avoid her forever.The five of us sneak out of school through the back doors, there was no archery today, so no one would miss us. Holls hangs behind, Stephen engages Noah and Declan in a conversation, and I know he is doing her bidding, Stephen wouldn’t voluntarily say so many words at once. “Spill, don’t waste my mate’s hard work.”I groan, picking a grass from the field as I
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