JULIETTE

All through the moments of my life, I had never for once believed time slowed when you eagerly waited for something, but today, I was forced to believe it, to dwell on it as my stomach tightened from hunger.

I had been waiting all morning, until noon, and even as the sun dipped low. My stomach growled loudly. I understood the faces Ria and Stacy passed me when I went to the kitchen to get a meal.

They had been hinting at me because they knew Darius had ordered Patricia, the ...