One Shift, One Night
she shot back, her dark eyes narrowing with a quiet, unyielding stubbornness that made Katherine press her hand over her mouth to stifle a giggle.
I stood by the small sink, we had managed the entire celebration on a strict forty-dollar budget. There were no rented bounce houses, no custom catering, and no piles of expensive high-tech toys. Instead, Katherine had scored a box of discounted party decorations from a clearance bin on campus, and I had spent the last three weeks hidden away at my dispatch terminal during the midnight lull, meticulously sewing two small stuffed animals out of old shirts and scrap fabric I’d found at a local thrift store.
A blue wolf for Leo. A little brown bear f
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