The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back
"Sky doesn't have lines in it like that. It's smooth."
Ravyn sat down on the floor between them, kicked her shoes off, and picked up a blue crayon.
For a little while — twenty minutes, maybe half an hour, the exact length of time it took to fill in a child's idea of the sky with the correct absence of visible lines — none of them thought about the date sitting now eight days out, or the device in the kitchen drawer, or the man with the X-shaped scar waiting somewhere in a future neither of them could quite picture yet, or the contract that had no ending except the one Marcello had described in a kitchen full of blood weeks ago.