CHAPTER 9CHARLIE
December 5, 2090
“If I had known Galloway could track me with those shoes, I never would have taken them in the first place.” Lareina sat on the couch, wrapped in a blanket with her eyes half closed. “That would have saved me a lot of trouble and changed the whole story.”
I looked up from the notebook on my lap and leaned forward in my chair. “You’re sure it was the shoes he was tracking and not the pendant?” A sudden panic pounded inside my chest.
We sat together in the quiet warmth of the Aumonts’ library. Lareina had come over at lunchtime, long after Kinley went to class and Rochelle and Kat went to the Tatems to take care of Todd while Emma finished her homework. There was no one in the house to overhear our conversation.
“Pretty sure.” She rested her head back a
