Okay, I’ll get everything ready. We can practice the presentation and you can help me make graphs. Yes, actual graphs. I know they’re important. Okay, see you…

I can’t promise I’ll be here all the time. I don’t need you here all the time. I just need to know you’re coming back. I will….

Did I do okay? You were perfect. I messed up the part about pH levels. You recovered beautifully, and your data speaks for itself. Amelia crouched down…

I can’t do this. She whispered. I can’t keep putting you through this. You’re not putting me through anything. They are. Same thing. It’s not. Lucas reached…

Okay, we fight together. Together. Friday morning came too fast. Amelia left before dawn, taking her laptop to the public library in the next town over. Emma…

The way she’d started leaving her expensive clothes in the closet in favor of jeans and sweaters that actually belonged on a farm. She fit here. That…

A few ended catastrophically. None of them felt like victory. Around midnight, his door opened quietly. Amelia stood there in pajamas, looking small and scared. “Can I”…

That sounds like a threat. It’s a promise. I protect what’s mine. Walsh studied them for a long moment. Then she picked up her tablet and typed…

They don’t get to take it just because I chose to have a life outside of it. She was quiet for a moment. But I regret every…