GINA’S APOLOGY. Gina’s POV. The bedroom was very large and bright with pink curtains hanging by the windows, and I was standing right in the middle of the floor holding my old brown teddy bear by its leg while Pearl sat on her small white bed with her coloring books scattered all around her. We had just come back from the big building downtown because Emma and Nathan looked very worried about something at that party, and the nannies had immediately guided us up to the penthouse to change into our pajamas, but I couldn't bring myself to climb into my own new bed because the heavy words Vera had said to me in the living room were still echoing loudly inside my head. Pearl looked up at me with her big blue eyes, holding out a yellow crayon as if she wanted me to sit down next to her, and

