Later that night, I reluctantly sat at the dinner table in my home, jaw clenched as Akio’s mother said something to Mom. While I sat at the dinner table with Akio and his parents, I couldn’t focus on the conversation in the slightest. My thoughts raced not only with how Redwood’s gang would kill Principal Vaughn, but also on why Kai hadn’t answered my texts from earlier.
howMom gave a fake laugh to whatever had been said and smiled over at me tensely, elbowing me. Mom was another one of the snotty rich from Redwood, but today, she looked uneasy, being in the presence of someone like herself. Maybe after being exposed to what had happened with Landon at the hospital, then João’s mom, she had some sympathy now.
But I wasn’t holding my breath.
People like her could act.
Not wanting to lis
