night Reva c

openly. Reva was t

e on their side: casually, with a cup of tea, with the door le

ssed her legs and looked at me with that copper-haired compos

help you,

ge of the bed a

was more useful than a response when some

tiful smile. The kind that

ack doesn't know what to do with you and neither does he. I've been here

want in retur

ght. Controlle

ed her with t

"I want you to leave

t moon. I can arrange transp

here new. You'd never ha

ked a

s was not a taunt, i

. Which meant I was more of a threat to

The curtain. Those gold e

rning on my neck that

aid not" I

hinned. Jus

said. "What the curse does. I watched i

arrive whole a

days

re was nothing lef

ow,"

n wh

going to happen to me here is still better than going back to a family

. To something that I did not

looked almost l

efore I could

ed her dress, picked

mistake," she s

s my whole life," I repli

closed the door quietly. Not slammed. Reva never slamm

she was gone and turned the

had refused. That meant one

s already too far in to see cl

ic

a's fear of me was real. And

bought anythin

g with that though

corridor and whatever distance separated me fro

ustained sound, like pressure seeking an exit. Like something

perhaps te

sil

red so hot I pressed my pa

, something had j

y I felt it like it w