"Would you like to dance?" Derek asked.

"Uh..." That was all I could get out in my panic. I was trapped. Memories of the fire threatened to surface again, my two sisters and I trapped and screaming, but I wouldn't let them. I couldn't let them.

"Jasmine needs to use the facilities," Kendra said, glancing at me with her forehead wrinkled. "This one's locked."

Derek took my hand and brought it to his lips to kiss it. What was it about my hand that he ...