5:28am. Finally, it was dawn. I wasn’t going to kid myself, I wanted to leave right then for school. It was like for the first time in many years, I had something to look forward to. I was excited. No, excited was too strong a word. I was merely looking forward to concluding this whole matter. I had managed to wait a few more hours but at Luke’s pace we were going to miss her. “Let’s go, Luke,” I called up the extravagant staircase. “Chill. Unless you’re planning on running her off the road on the way, there is no reason to follow her to school,” Luke called down after me. I clenched my jaw. Luke didn’t need to know my reasons. Frankly, I didn’t want to know my reasons. I was becoming a little too interested in this girl. Beyond the why-does-someone-want-her-dead interest, officially closer to the I-want-to-get-to-know-her-better interest. And that wasn’t a good thing, especially since she was Human and especially since someone had sent me to Hunt her. After lunch the day before, I had worked out a plan.
