Rose released the latch on the barn door, pushed one of the doors open, and peered outside. The night sky had darkened, but she could make out no one in the immediate area. Oliver would have arrived at the school gates by now, and Rose needed to go to him, since no one knew she’d holed up in the barn.
She stepped out, locked the barn, and inhaled the cool spring air before striding down the path that led in the direction of the school’s entrance. Soon she arrived near the school gates and hid behind the flower hedges that lined the cobblestone road running from the door of the school’s main administrative building, taking care to avoid the security guards. Luckily, it seemed they’d confined themselves to the gatehouse.
Rose looked beyond the gates to the parking lot outside. There was no
