Brandon still hadn't showed up by the next morning, and I did not mind. It gave me the opportunity to slip out of the house unnoticed, even by Emile. Emile made me nervous, Brandon's interest in her was truly unsettling. And I worried that I'd loose him to her, the same way Charlotte had lost him to me. It was fitting, if I wanted to be honest, that someone took him from me too, the same way I'd taken him from someone else. But I did not believe in Karma. I believed in seeing what I wanted and going for it. And that's exactly what I did with Brandon. I...