“Go Redwood!” Allie screamed beside me, grinning as Jace walked along the sidelines next to his coach and gave advice to the players. He was far too f****d up from his father to do anything other than watch tonight.
It was the first time I had seen her smile like that in a long time. So much s**t had happened these past few days, and now that the principal was gone, we didn’t have to worry about a thing. Poison would burn his body, and everything would return to normal.
“You’re lucky,” Akio said beside me, leaning in closer.
I hadn’t invited him, but I wasn’t going to shoo him away after he saved me.
“My mom hasn’t said a word about you since the dinner. I expected her to”—he glanced over my shoulder at Allie cheering for our team—“to want me to kill you.”
“My mom said to drop it,” I
