Raven’s POV
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Mazie asked me for the hundredth time this morning, as we arrived at school, and just like the last ninety-nine times she asked, I put a smile on my face and told her everything was fine, even though it wasn’t true.
As the two of us walked into school, I was shocked to see Chance leaning against my locker, talking to a couple of guys. Chance had been absent from school since Josie’s body was found, helping his father with keeping watch over the ranch and the horses, but he had kept in touch with me at night, as he never missed a night calling me to check on Mazie and me, that was until last night.
Turning his head to look at me with the look of worry plaguing his eyes, I now knew why he was here even before he opened his mouth and said, “Hey. I tr
