CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Someone You Already Know
~Zella's POV~
I moved fast.
Dress. Hair. Shoes. The approximate version of a person who had slept in their own room and was simply awake early for no particular reason. I checked the mirror once. Acceptable. Barely. Then opened the door.
Brynn was standing in the hallway.
Right outside his door.
We looked at each other.
"Hey," I said. Very normally.
Brynn looked at me. Then at the door behind me. Then at me again with the expression of someone doing a calculation they hadn't expected to be doing at this hour.
"Why were you in my dad's room?"
My mouth opened. Nothing came out. My brain, which had been perfectly functional approximately twelve hours ago, had chosen this moment to stop producing sentences.
"She came to get something."
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