BURNED EMPIRE
I wondered now if she'd already known, even then, exactly how trapped she was going to become inside this family, and whether some small, cornered part of her had been reaching out for a way to warn me, even without fully understanding it herself.
"Do you think she wants out?" I asked George quietly. "Selena. Do you think, underneath all of this, she's actually looking for someone to give her a reason to stop protecting Alessia?"
"I think," George said slowly, "that people rarely choose to be someone's weapon forever, Camila. Eventually, most of them get tired of being used. The question is whether we can reach her before Thursday, or whether Alessia's already made sure that door stays close