Adam has been serving to with the household enterprise for years. Shadowing his father and being groomed to in the future take over the Harper empire.

And it’s by no means made him late earlier than.

“Did you write that e book report on Romeo and Juliet for Mrs. Stevenson’s class?” Evie asks.

“After all,” I reply her, my eyes nonetheless glued to the window. “I wrote it a few weeks in the past.”

“Two weeks in the past?! Ew. You’re such a goody two footwear,” Evie teases.

“I’ve to be,” I sigh at her. “You get into sufficient bother for the each of us.”

“And now you sound identical to my mom,” Evie growls.

I giggle, watching her reflection within the window glare at me. “Is that purported to be an insult?”

Evie twists her lips to the facet, contemplating how she desires to reply.

She’s usually at odds along with her mom over her habits, and it definitely doesn’t assist that Lily has been evaluating her to me increasingly more.

As if I’m some sort of gold customary Evie must stay as much as.

If solely Lily knew the reality…

I’m not the ‘good lady’ everybody believes me to be and Evie isn’t the ‘dangerous lady’.

I’m merely a coward. In contrast to Evie, I don’t have the heart to interrupt the principles.

Not when there’s a lot at stake.

Throwing her head again, Evie sighs up on the ceiling in defeat. “No.”

Pleased with her for not insulting her mom, I return my consideration to the empty driveway outdoors the window. Prepared Adam to look, if just for us to have extra time collectively.

It looks like we barely get to see one another as of late. There’s all the time one thing popping as much as hold us aside. The paranoid a part of my mind thinks that is all intentional. That our households have determined to do every little thing they’ll to maintain us from seeing one another…

However why now? What’s instantly modified?

Is it as a result of I’ve turned fourteen? I’m now not checked out as slightly lady however I’m additionally not but a lady.

I’m caught someplace in-between, ready for some mystical magical second of progress and awakening to occur. I consider I’ve accomplished my finest to reveal how accountable and reliable I’m within the meantime.

And but I really feel like I’m underneath much more scrutiny.

Each little factor I do is seen by somebody and reported. There are eyes in all places now, and I need to all the time be good. It’s virtually as if it’s anticipated I act and assume like an grownup however I’m nonetheless to not be handled as one.

“Can I have a look at your report?” Evie says, nonetheless staring on the ceiling. “I haven’t began but and don’t even know the place to start out.”

“Did you learn the e book?” I ask, already understanding the reply.

Evie makes a sound of disgust and throws her palms within the air. “I hate Shakespeare. Why can’t he simply say what he means, like everybody else? Attempting to determine it out offers me a headache.”

Actually, I really feel the identical. That’s why I had Adam assist me with my very own report. With out him, I might have been utterly misplaced in all of the flowery phrases.

However to listen to him communicate them to me… to clarify what they imply… left me completely weak and breathless.

Particularly when his eyes lit up with emotion as if he was Romeo himself expressing his love for me, his Juliet.

If the nanny wasn’t supervising us from her rocking chair within the nook, clicking her tongue towards the roof of her mouth in disapproval, I do know he would have grabbed me and kissed me in that second.

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