Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters?" I say. "Not that I now of," says Cara. "Unless you want to jump from one roof to another." She laughs a little as she says it, like it's a joke. I raise my eyebrows at her. "Wait," she says. "You aren't considering---?

And I provide much- needed eye candy.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.