Cellblock Heat
“Yh, I did. Didn’t finish though. Now quit being funny and help me.”
He climbed down slowly, gracefully, like everything he did. Then, without asking, he slid down to sit on the floor next to me. Close enough that I caught the faint scent of whatever soap he got from the infirmary. He eyed me like I was a lost cause, but there was something softer in it.
“How old is Amara, to begin with?” he asked, already pulling a sheet toward him.
“Two,” I said, and just the number pulled me somewhere else—the image of her small hands clinging to mine the last time I visited her in the foster home. The way she sounded too smart for her little body.
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