Johannes POV
I can’t believe my mothers managed this. We had a deal she was going to leave me alone until after the cross country, yet somehow when I’m just about to explain things to Clara her and Eliza appear. I read her thinly veiled threat about our conversation last night, it as just hours before the cross country, Phantom had passed his vetting this morning, if she took him away now the rumours that would fly about why he was pulled from the running could damage my reputation for years.
I tried to catch Clara’s eye to tell her to trust me, I couldn’t read her expression as she looked back at me, then she was gone, and my heart with her.
My mother clapped her hands happily together, ‘So where do you both fancy for lunch?’
‘I really need to eat this sandwich right now and then focu
