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He bit back the i I’ll watch you on the way to school"

"Watch," she retorted "That’s all you’ll ever do"

Balthazar stor her bedroom door behind hiht, if she kne … unclean I a I love--

Which was the first moment he knew beyond any doubt that he loved her--the sa never to return

Chapter Eighteen

SKYE MANAGED TO GET READY FOR SCHOOL AS though it were any other day Her body went through theon the inside

She’d been rejected Well, that happened She’d liked Jason Mulroney in middle school, and he’d never looked twice at her So she would cope

Liking a boy in uy you can share everything with, someone who knohere you hurt and what you’ve lost and still cares about you--

So, like losing Craig She’d survived that

Craig went to bed with you once, and after that he just walked aithout a backward glance

Maybe you’re just an easy girl to leave

And she had never wanted Craig as badly as she’d wanted Balthazar thisshe’d never understood until no she had sex with Craig ed for closeness and comfort after Dakota’s death She’d learned about real desire only when she woke up in the arrabbed so ready as if it were any other day--except she used the waterproofat schoolto her, and even the pale sun that crept through the constantly falling snoas too bright, as were the fluorescent lights in Darby Glen High And was it her i better than before? Tennis shoes squeaking on linoleum, the metallic slam of locker doors, Florence and The Machine in so her overwhel into step with her as they walked into homeroom "Whoa What happened? You look like crap today No offense"