CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Instead of responding to Blaine’s occasional attempts at conversation, Riley was focused on a different set of words. She had very little to say as he drove her home. She was listening to the line that kept rattling through her head.
“Deny thy father and refuse thy name.”
Of course! she thought. The meaning of Hatcher’s message should have been obvious to her right away.
But she had been distracted by the thought that the message had something to do with her own troubled relationship with her father—that is, if it meant anything at all.
But now she knew—it was all about that name that came in the very next Shakespearian line.
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo …
She remembered something else that Juliet had said in that same scene …
“What’s in a name?”
As things turned out, th
