Chapter 10: The Reason

The King cleared the room. Everyone. Except Rafe — and Dorian, who didn't move and wasn't ordered to, which told me something about him I filed away to think about later. "Sit down, Wren." "I'd rather stand." "Sit down anyway." I sat. "You've been on my campus for over a year. Your family reported you missing eleven days ago. Did you know they were searching?" "They called sixty-three times the day I arrived. Zero times in the year before it." My voice came out level. "I lived in a boathouse...