Chapter 10
Juno
“Tell me everything.” Pearl’s exaggeratingly demanding tone and the way she strokes her cat conspire to make her resemble an evil villain—or to reveal her true nature. “And I mean every detail,” she continues. “Or else.”
With a sigh, I gesture for her to sit on my raggedy couch and launch into it, pacing around the tiny space of my studio. For self-preservation reasons, I do not mention the water bottle incident or the wet dreams Pearl interrupted by showing up so early.
“So… you didn’t know that Lucius Warren is one of the richest men in the country?” She says this with such passion Atonic stops being catatonic and gives me a lazy once-over from her lap. “The closest an American can get to being a prince?”
I shake my head, still stunned by that bizarre article.
“Or t
