THE next day passed pretty much the same as the one before. Jayden stayed home and supervised her while she did the chores, and then locked her up in her room before promptly disappearing to whatever he did for the rest of the day.
Avery had just decided to take a nap, because honestly studying anymore was going to fry her brain, when she heard it.
There was a sharp sound from somewhere below her window.
She hurried across the room and looked out of her tiny window, grimacing at the first flash of sunlight. When her vision cleared, she could just about make out three people on the ground behind the house.
Alex, Lucas and Jamie.
Her eyes latched onto her cousins immediately. She couldn’t shout, of course, Jayden would hear, so she made an ‘okay’ sign with her hands, furrowing her eyebr
