When I was almost fully gone I felt his fingers close carefully around mine and ease them free from his shirt, then a pillow shifting gently under my head, and then quiet.
Wednesday morning I woke early, washed up, and came out to find him already at the table.
"Good morning!" I said, the way I always did.
"Hmm." He gestured at the chair across from him.
We ate in silence and went downstairs together, and I expected the usual, him driving off to work, Ronan taking me to school. But when Kael got behind the wheel he said, without looking at me, "Get in."
"You're taking me?"
"Hmm."
He hadn't driven me himself in over two months. I got in before he could change his mind.
He came to pick me up that afternoon too.
I started to suspect he was watching for the guy. Scanning the school ga
