Aeliana Call it a hunch. Or maybe a sinking feeling. But I had a slowly growing suspicion ever since I arrived here this summer, and now, I needed to know. Just what was going on at Blue Moon? Seeing August last night, sneaking around just to get medicine for his mother's injury—which I suspected had something to do with Carlotta—was the last straw. Clearly, she had a side to her that was darker even than what I had seen. She wasn't just a stressed out leader like I originally thought. She was cruel. What I wasn't sure of was whether or not Derek knew about it. I wasn't sure what terrified me more, the idea that Derek might be condoning his mother's actions, or that he might be unaware of them altogether. Though if I had to choose, I hoped it was the latter. At least then he had the ex

