Ripley's POV

After the incident in the kitchen, Jake had gently suggested Ripley start trying to take some control of her power. He did his best to walk her through how he had learned to use his abilities, but that only got them so far.

He had called off work that Wednesday, staying to tutor her for a while. They ended up mostly just lounging around and filling each other in on the nitty gritty details of their lives they had left out earlier.

However, they couldn't ...