Chapter 5

Viola spent the rest of the day hiding in her tiny bedroom.

She didn’t go down for lunch, and she skipped dinner entirely. She just sat on the edge of her bed, her knees pulled tight to her chest, waiting. She expected her mother to burst through the door at any second. She expected to be dragged to the dark storage rooms and punished for eavesdropping.

But no one came.

He had caught her sneaking, but he hadn’t told her mother.