Chapter 27
The next night, Louise spread out a hand-drawn map of Oak Creek on Lareina’s bed. She pointed at a building near the center. “That’s where everyone will be gathered for the engagement party.”
Lareina peered over Louise’s hand to read the label above a little square sketched out in pencil. “Really? The cafeteria?”
Louise raised her eyebrows. “You didn’t think we had some kind of fancy banquet hall you’d never seen?”
“No, I guess not.” She glanced out the window but only darkness greeted her. All day she had waited for a tickle in her throat or that first chill to indicate an oncoming fever, but she felt normal, physically anyway. At work or in conversations, she could barely focus long enough to make sense of anything. Nick had entirely replaced any thoughts of Whitley that h
