Chapter 2A week after his first meeting with Riley, Russ found himself waiting for her outside the Lakeville School building. He hadn't seen her in person since the other day when he had taken her to Lakeville, but after their first meeting he'd visited her dreams twice. She was willing enough to let him visit with her in her ice prison of sleep, but she had not shown him any more memories.
“Riley,” he said, his voice gruff as he scanned her slender form. Something had changed about her posture. She was carrying herself with more poise, not hunched and nervous the way she'd been before. Only two days in the classroom has done her that much good? Amazing. Some people were just born teachers.
“Russell.” She met his eyes and then her gaze skated away in what he had already figured out was a
