Alice

My body felt completely exhausted when I finally returned home from school that afternoon.

To be honest, I barely understood anything from the lectures we had the entire day. No matter how hard I tried to focus on what my professors were saying, my mind kept drifting back to everything that had happened over the past few days.

Lance’s disappearance and his sudden appearance at the press conference.

And the words he said to me.

I should have felt happy after hearing them.

But how could I feel that way when I knew those words might have made his father furious… and that there was no telling what his...