Ariana's POV
The library had gone quiet in a way I'd never experienced before, the overhead lights dimmed to emergency settings, snow piling thick against the tall windows, muting the outside world into something distant and unreal.
"So we're actually stuck here," I said, sitting down on the floor between two shelves, my back against the cool wood. "All night."
"Looks like it." Jace dropped down across from me, close enough in the narrow aisle that our knees almost touched. "Could be worse. At least we're not stuck in an elevator or something."
"Small mercies." I pulled my knees up, wrapping my arms around them. "So what do people even do when they're snowed into a library."
"Great question." Jace looked around at the towering shelves like they might have an answer. "Option one, we ac
