Chapter Nineteen
As Nicora turned to leave, Tevera leaped up, twisted free from Yverras’s hand on her shoulder, and dashed to the door. She stood in front of it, blocking her great-grandmother’s path. “No!” Tevera shouted. “Now, I will be heard!”
Her cousins Estra and Levit took a step toward her, scowling, but Nicora said, “Hold,” and they stopped and stepped back. The captain studied Tevera with her cold blue eyes. “Well?”
“I wondered why Kriss disappeared after helping to rescue me,” Tevera said. Her heart pounded to be facing down the captain—and some small part of her wailed in a little-girl voice, What are you doing?—but she didn’t move from her place in front of the door. “Now, I know. My brother—” she saw Rigel’s face flush at the scorn she poured into that word, and felt viciou
