Good, I think, smiling and waving to her. Now the boys will be distracted as well.

Georgia gives me a happy nod as she heads into the house, looking for the boys, and I pull my legs up onto the little loveseat as well, beaming at Delia and Emma.

“We’ll have some privacy now,” I say, smiling at them.

“Privacy,” Emma says, looking through the window at the house filled with people, “seems to be a…relative term. In this house.”

“Oh, it’s not so bad,” I laugh, tucking my hair behind my ears and shaking my head. “You get used to it – it feels…I don’t know. Like a sports team, or something. Everyone working together towards the same goal. And most of the Betas go home at night.”

“Most of them?” Emma asks, raising her eyebrow. “We always had guards at mom and dad’s house, but we they were always outside the house.”

“Well, here to,” I say with a shrug. “Though I guess it’s…smaller.”

“I think it’s nice,” Delia says warmly. “I always liked a full house growing up.”

I c**k my head to the side and study the two of them, wondering what all of this house talk was getting to. “Are you guys thinking about moving in together or something?” I blurt suddenly, curious.

Emma blinks at me and then blushes, I think not really used to being asked about her private life so straightforwardly. After a life with Joyce, after all, she’s probably not used to anyone asking about her thoughts or her plans at all.

“Actually,” Delia says, unphased by my question (she knows me, after all) and taking Emma’s hand, “kind of…the opposite.”

– you’re not – you can’t be breaking up

at her girlfriend, “because she wants you to guess. But I know you’ll have a panic attack if we

eagerly, my eyes wide, “Please

and squeezing Delia’s hand. “We’re going to…go away

I ask, not

now. A little bit without-home, for awhile at least. We’re going to go wherever

my god,” I breathe, suddenly flooded with mixed emotions. “That

finishes for

And like – jealous! I want to come! Can I

me, but they know that I

leaning back against the loveseat, pressing my hands to my chest. “Oh no, I don’t want you to feel guilty, but I really am going to miss you so much. What

been…it feels like, my whole life,

nod, looking carefully at

Evelyn. And then, after that? It was…Joyce’s life. Joyce’s life, Joyce’s world, Joyce’s choices. I was…nobody. I feel

head a little, remembering

so hemmed in. I know that a lot of Lunas have felt the same, but in some ways…like, mom was always allowed to leave the house? Dad didn’t stop her from doing that?” Emma

weaker than me – I would have collapsed to it as well. It was only

picking up where Emma left of. “Since we started…discovering our feelings for

again. “But now that he’s gone? Now that you’ve given me that freedom, Evelyn?” Emma says, raising her eyes to shake her head in wonder at me. “I have…a liberty that I never could

am choked up, suddenly, by the emotion that rises in me. This, I think. This is why Victor and

and turn to her. I laugh too, then, realizing that Delia is right – it was getting too serious,

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