Chapter 45

• After Kaia left, Venice sat in her office, replaying her conversation with the young girl, trying to figure out what she could have said to change the course of things. But nothing came up. No matter what she might have said, it would have boiled down to the same thing.
• She betrayed the only friend she had.
• Minutes, perhaps hours, passed, and Venice didn’t move an inch from the spot where she sat. She tried protecting Kai’s little secret, but it cost her a friend. The only friend she had.