Chapter 43 A Mother's Plea

• I enjoyed spending time with Nicole, but we had achieved very little studying. So I spent most of the next morning trapped in one of the Academy’s libraries, studying for my upcoming exams.
• Yet as hard as I tried to concentrate, my thoughts continued returning to the story of the Lover’s Ferris Wheel and an unbidden fantasy of Asher leaning in close for a kiss.
• I dropped my head, face first, into the open textbook on the table before me.