CHAPTER 8CHARLIE
December 3, 2090
Without hesitation, she sprang forward, catapulting herself away from shelter, safety, and the two people who had almost been her family.
I tapped my pen against my notebook and glanced over my most recent section of Lareina’s story. So far I’d written about her dangerous escapes from Detective Galloway, meeting Nick and Aaron, foolishly walking through Austin during an outbreak of the fever, and jumping from a train to avoid involving her new friends in her life on the run. I knew somehow she would find them again. But I wanted to know what happened to the pendant. So far I knew how it came into her possession and that she’d managed to hold onto it for almost two months. But she was adamant I had to hear and write the story in order. When she finished,
