Black Ice
My eyes were locked on the boy in the corner.
He was trembling—proper, bone-deep shaking.
He was wearing an oversized gray jumpsuit that hung off his weak body, his knuckles white as he gripped the handle of his mop.
He looked up, and the breath left my lungs like I had been cross-checked in the throat.
He was haunting.
Pale skin, a dusting of light freckles across his nose, and eyes the color of a winter forest—deep, terrified green. His blond hair was messy, clinging to his forehead, and his lips were full and rosy, currently caught between his teeth as he stared at me.