*Esmerelda*

I felt terror pull through me. My first thought was that everything I had done and Rosalind getting in trouble for letting me out had all been for nothing.

Dave had expected that I would try to run away rather than allow the school to harbor me and have him bring the authorities down on them and the headmaster. It was almost like he knew exactly what I would have done.

“You planned this,” I breathed, the realization hitting me like a ton of ...