Chapter Fifty Seven

Hope.

We walked outside and away from the house toward the swimming pool.

“How is he? When no one’s around, I mean?”

“Bossy.” I couldn’t tell her about earlier. About any of it. “And gone, mostly.He just got back from wherever he was, actually.”

“He looks at you like he wants to eat you alive.”

He scared me, but I didn’t want to say that out loud, and not to Izzy. “I can’t figure him out. He is horrible one second, then nice. Almost…caring. Like he gives a shit what I feel or think.” I picked a single dandelion growing in the otherwise immaculate lawn. “But then he is a jerk again, and then he disappears.”

“Is he making you…” she hesitated.

“Sleep with him?” She nodded.

“Not yet.”I lied

“Good. Are you able to come and go?”

“I don’t know. Not on my own, I think.”

“Okay, that’s fine. I’ll just come get you. If he wants to send someone to follow us, we’ll deal.”

“It doesn’t matter, Izzy. I’m stuck here.”

“Luke and I…We are not going to sit back and let them have everything. L