Ember's POV
"I still think this is a really bad idea."
Mira's voice followed me as I stepped down the stairs. She was right on my heel and her voice echoed in the empty stairway. "Everything about this feels wrong."
I paused then whirled around to stare at her. "Don't you want to see Alan?"
She paused then sucked her bottom lip into her mouth, "I do..."
"That settles things." I muttered in a firm voice then turned around and kept walking.
"What do you mean if settles things?" Mira's voice resounded behind me and her footsteps resumed. "What if we are going out?"
"We won't be as long as you keep your mouth shut," I answered, voice coming out more clipped than I intended.
I gave her an apologetic look right after then tried to make her reason with me. "You want to see Alan race, rig
