Riley
I waited until the camp was settled and Jace had taken himself off to check the perimeter before I sat down beside my sister.
She was staring at the fire, her eyes vacant, her lips pressed into a thin line. Whatever was on her mind was weighing heavily.
I had watched her and Blackwood walk back from the river at midday, not touching, not speaking, but I wasn’t a complete i***t. There was definitely something sparking between those two, even if neither of them wanted to admit it.
“Kaida,” I said, picking up a stick from the pile of firewood. Some distance from the fire Corbin and Finn were arguing with Maggie over the two lean rabbits they had managed to hunt for dinner. Donal had gone down to the stream to fetch water.
She looked at me sideways. “Riley.”
“We need to talk about
