Livia’s POV
I freeze in my spot, not knowing what to say. Ella looks so happy about it, but at the same time in a very casual manner. Like she’s just glad that she found a way to make Ford’s appearance in the community college a complete success.
“Don’t they… don’t they have dolls you can practice on?” I ask in a reedy, high voice. “I mean, won’t it be very weird for him to practice on a real person?”
“It’s a community college, darling.” Ella hangs her arm over my shoulder. “It’s not like they can afford those dolls. It’s not even supposed to be Ford that’s speaking—he’s just the only one who agreed to do it for free. It’s a poor college, you know. And they just had a bad incident of a student almost drowning. It’s very relevant.”
Now I feel bad.
Ford was the only one who did it for f
