From the Ashes by Lena Nottingham

Author:Lena Nottingham [Nottingham, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781533683458
Google: F9eoDAEACAAJ
Amazon: B01HILSGCM
Goodreads: 30749791
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2016-06-23T03:00:00+00:00

An hour later, when both girls climb back through Dakota’s window, a pair of eyes watches them quietly from across the hallway. Gia’s the one who notices this, and she raises an eyebrow. The door is pushed open a crack.

“I don’t like it when you sneak out,” Finley mumbles, poking her head out into the hallway. “I thought you ran away.”

“Go to bed,” Gia shakes her head, causing the girl to frown.

“I can’t.”

“Why not?”

“Cause’ you might sneak out again.”

Sighing heavily, Gia rolls her eyes and crosses the hallway. “If you’re so worried about me sneaking out, I’ll sleep in here,” she kicks the door open, plopping down on the spare bed in Finley’s room. “That way you can sound the alarm if I jump out thefucking window.”

Finley turns to look at Dakota in question, but all she gets is a soft shrug.

As soon as the bedroom door is pulled shut, Dakota’s snatching her pillow from her own bed and tiptoeing down the hallway. She nudges Ryland’s door open, softly crossing the room and crawling into the space between Ryland and the wall.

“Ryland,” she whispers, a smile tugging at her lips. The girl stirs, lifting her head and furrowing her eyebrows.

“What are you… what?” she mumbles, still groggy with sleep. Dakota just pulls her closer and finds the girl’s hands under the blankets.

“Gia’s in Finley’s room,” she whispers, resting her forehead against Ryland’s shoulder. “Go back to sleep.”

“Is everything okay?”

Dakota nods softly. “Just wanted to lay with you.”

Humming contently, Ryland curls her fingers around Dakota’s and tugs her closer. And for a while, Dakota forgets about all that happened earlier. Evil doesn’t exist. For a while, it’s just her and Ryland and the steady hum of the air conditioning.

(In the morning, when a man in uniform arrives at the door to question Gia about her father’s car, Red glares at the girl before turning to tell the officer that itcouldn’t possibly have been Gia, for she was accounted for at all hours of the night. When he leaves, both Finley and Ryland bombard Dakota with questions.)

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