"Does Ms. Hoton know your plan?" Nathan asked me. "Or have you kept everyone in the dark?"

"Oh, come on, you already know, right?" I joked. "I just don't want to cause any trouble for everyone. Ms. Hoton is my best friend. She definitely wouldn't want me to put myself in danger. But I won't hide things from her. I told her that Mark is planning to take me to the Crystal Brook Mountain Retreat, in the Rockies, and she just happens to have an ex-boyfriend there who works as a product ...