Ash's POV
I had forgotten to breathe for a second there.
When the voice had carried down the corridor saying there's a girl in the dorm, everything in me had lurched sideways and gone cold because I was the only girl in this dormitory, the only girl in this entire school, and someone knew, someone had seen something and the whole careful construction of the last several months was about to come down around my ears right here in a corridor full of people.
And then I had looked at Rowan.
He was the one frozen now, not me, his jaw tight, his eyes fixed on something above us and ahead, and the shift was so complete and so sudden that I forgot my own panic entirely and followed his gaze up to the landing.
There was a girl standing there.
I stared at her.
Blonde, blindingly so, the kind
