Chapter 7: Ember

I didn't sleep in the bed. They gave me a room the size of my old house, with a private bathroom and a window seat and a walk-in closet that Nico had already filled with clothes in my size, which he'd guessed by looking at me and getting it wrong in the sweetest possible way — everything one size too big, "so you can grow into it." I slept on the floor beside the bed with my dolphin plush, because that's what my body knows. At six a.m. someone knocked. "It's Rafe. I'm not coming in." "Okay?" "You're...