Orion lets his hands slip all the way from his face. “Do you really think that’s true?”Anton just laughs and shakes his head at the spoiled Prince, who has been catered to so much that he doesn’t even realize people are doing it. “If you were a girl with your life on the line, and you thought a guy
“Oh no,” Anton says, pressing an earnest hand to his chest as he grins at Orion, leaning forward. “You see, June and I are a package deal. Anyone who dates her gets me too, fifteen feet away at all times, just hanging out. Which I think, for you, is a win. A Bride and a Bro, all in one go.”Orion la
“Just…get to know them, man,” Anton says, grinning at his friend and laughing a little.Orion just narrows his eyes. “But…how?”Anton laughs harder. “Okay, that date you took Laila on. Nice date, right?”“Yes, it was very nice.”“But did you…get to know anything about her? Really?”“She told me much
About eight minutes into assassin training, I decide that I hate it.Anton claps his hands at me, making me jog around the room in faster and faster circles, calling it my training exercises and telling me I’d never even make it through the Candidacy at the Academy at this rate. It’s funny for about
“Group home,” he answers, giving a little nod. “It wasn’t at all bad, so don’t get any ideas about me being some poor lorn abused child. And we weren’t underfed and wanting, we just didn’t have…this.” He casts his hands out at the elaborate expanse of comfort and luxury and junk food I just conjured
Unsurprisingly, Laila loves the TV.She spends the first half of the movie staring at the screen in rapt awe while Anton and I kind of just…watch her. Then, when she breaks through her shock, Laila spends the second half of the film going through every feeling in her emotional rolodex, laughing hyst
But Orion moves on, shifting his eyes to Laila now. “And I also wanted to say, to both of you – to all of you – that I really want to spend more time with you. Not as a Prince, not as part of the Games. Just as…people. I’d like to be your friends, if you’ll let me.”Laila just stares at Orion in sur
“Oh, wow,” Anton says, straightening from his place at my side to gaze out over the black lake, shimmering like a flat expanse of rippled obsidian before us. “That’s…incredible.”And he’s right. I stare in awe at the sight before me – the lake, ringed by a wide expanse of dark pines, shining with th