BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
When he killed the engine, Layla hopped out of the back and began sorting through their gear in the trunk, while Mira scanned the vacant Starlight trench through her binoculars.
“It certainly is vacant,” she said, thinking to herself that Nate had kept his word. In so many ways, she wished she hadn’t been compelled to run off from the Escala earlier. Part of her would’ve loved to have stayed, forgotten her worries for an afternoon, gotten lost in the spell of his body, the intoxication of his effect on her, but saving Bellevue from certain death was far more important. What was this war brewing inside her, hating and also loving Nate, if love was even a remote possibility?
“Let’s go,” said L
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