Jeremy left for Aldermere.

The day he flew out, Madam Summers took Moly to the airport to see him off. Three o'clock flight.

Scarlett went too. Quietly, on her own.

She stood beneath an open sky — blue and bright and indifferent — and watched a plane tear itself free of the earth and climb until it was swallowed by clouds. The roar of the engines rolled over her like a wave, like something enormous and unstoppable. It reminded her of the way she ...