“There…” Mei kept her eyes closed, head pillowed on the crux of her elbow. “Now go to sleep.”
Go to sleep? Violet thought frantically. How?!
Violet never had a sister to bathe with. She’d seen another woman’s body on occasion. When they were younger, she and Mary had to change out of their Sunday clothes in Violet’s room because Eustace had gotten them thick with mud. But she’d certainly never been in such close proximity to another person’s nakedness. And in such a situation! Two men and a boy slept merely feet from where they lay. Imagine what the others would think if they saw them together?
She f***s girls.
Violet kept her hands tucked underneath her arms at all times. She felt her chest quiver with nerves, and kept her legs wrapped tightly around one another. Her blood pumped like
