JAMIE
I slammed my bedroom door harder than I should have and the sound echoed through the hallways of the house. My brothers’ voices were still ringing in my ears from the argument we’d had earlier. Everything felt like it was crumbling around us—Amber, Mason’s death, the strange things happening at school, Ethan sneaking off to meet Vanessa. And now Zac acting like the world was his to control.
I threw myself on my bed, but lying there only made me feel more restless. My chest burned with frustration. The silence of my room wasn’t comforting; and more than anything at the moment, I needed solid answers to all the questions burning through my mind.
So, I left my room and wandered down the hallway until my feet carried me to the one place in the house that always pulled me in—the libra
