28
SAVANNAH
PRESENT
“Well, I got Ash into a cab,” Maddox said when he found me downstairs in the lobby. “How’s Amelia doing?”
“It’s over, Maddox.”
He paused. A flash of fear flashing on his face. He asked very gently, “What is over?”
“My career.”
The fear disappeared, and in its place was confusion. This wasn’t where he’d thought the conversation was going. I hadn’t been honest about what my life had been like in the intervening years since Academy had ended. I avoided talking about it at all. Just focused on this one last audition. The one that I had been sure I had in the bag.
It had been the best audition of my life. Better even than Academy.
I was starting to think that I’d only gotten that job because I already was Cassie Herrington. Henrick Van der Berg had wanted someone ju
