Bella sat for a moment to cool off. Although the apartment had come furnished, so she didn’t have to deal with moving furniture, she still had several more boxes’ worth of clothes and books and things to pack up. She was beginning to wonder if it would all fit in the truck bed.
She grabbed the next box and headed down the hall. As her hands busied themselves, her mind wandered back to Tommy’s outburst yesterday afternoon. It had broken her heart. Whatever had happened to him over the break, it had changed him. The sweet youngster with so much promise that had become her favorite student was now cold and distant.
Her phone ringing pulled her back. “Hello?”
“Hey Bella, it’s Nathan.”
“Hi! How’s the case going?”
“I’m in Vegas for a day or two digging around. I should be flying back someti
