SUMMER
The club was loud before we got out of the car.
The bass came up through the cobblestones in the alley behind it, and the muffled roar of a hundred Hearthstone Prep students who had been promised free entry to a Voss family club for one night only and had arrived in full force. The line outside snaked down the block. Maddox had clearly told the door to expect us, because the bouncer waved Rhett's Range Rover into the private lot at the back without a word, and Rhett, equally without comment, pulled into a reserved space and cut the engine.
"Okay," Maya whispered, in the sudden quiet. "This is a lot."
"Welcome to Maddox's party philosophy," Alex said. "Quantity, quality, and one fire hazard."
"I love it."
The four of us walked around to the front. The bouncer recognized Rhett,
