LANE SIX

Familiar Faces

My fingers tightened around the photograph.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

I stared at it until the hallway around me blurred into noise.

Ethan stood near the edge of the frame.

I recognized him immediately now.

Older than me.

Track jacket zipped halfway.

Expression unreadable.

But he wasn't the reason my pulse had started racing.

The person beside him was.

I knew that face.

I had seen it almost every day since transferring to Blackwater.

No, no, no.

This didn't make sense.

"Naomi?"

I jumped so hard the photograph nearly slipped from my hand.

Kiara frowned at me.

"What happened?"

I opened my mouth.

Closed it.

Then handed her the picture.

Her expression shifted from confusion to disbelief.

"What the hell?"

"Exactly."

She looked up at me.

"Are you sure that's them?"

I