“Where are you going, Laynie?” Cassius calls from the kitchen as I stomp away. “Where else? Your cousin needs to wake up,” I yell back and march outside. I go to Brandon’s study first, expecting him to still be there since it’s where I delivered his food, but he’s not. I invade his room too, but he’s not there either, so I enter the passage from his bedroom to his library. I look down from the library’s second floor, and I find him by his desk alone. Brandon is looking so magnificent in his snug black vest and white shirt as he sits on the edge of a desk, holding a tablet. He is frowning at the screen, so he must be working. But screw that. He has to hear what I have to say. I march down from the first floor and lock the door to prevent an intruder from coming in. He doesn’t seem to no

