BILLIE
The days pass slowly while we wait for the night of the fight between Spader and Dominic.
It rains endlessly, a dreary late winter rain, with fog-filled mornings and evenings. I'm excused from all classes except dance, which I attend in the mornings with a giant bodyguard in the form of Thorne. I haunt our tower and the courtyard at the Rock House, barely able to concentrate on my studies and the lessons Dominic gives me in hand to hand combat.
On the first day, I join Dominic in a room in the basement set up for fitness and training. There's crossfit and pilates equipment and a kitchen area for making protein smoothies, and in the center a fighting ring. Dominic shows me how to throw a punch, how to grapple with someone larger than me, and evasive moves. We spar for a while, th
