CHAPTER 4
MIAI yawned and turned onto my side. The sunlight flooded in through the window. I blinked my eyes open, smelling the bitter scent of coffee drifting into the room. Melissa and Serena were gone, the bedroom door ajar. I pushed the blankets off of me and padded out into the hallway, following the sweet scent of breakfast.
“It’s about time,” Melissa said from the kitchen table.
She and Serena were chatting over a box of doughnuts. Mr. Bryne was leaning against the counter with a coffee mug in his hand and a pair of tight gray sweatpants around his hips.
He glanced over at me, smirking. I gulped and avoided eye contact with him, my heart racing in my chest. Something about that damn stare of his made me think that he really had watched me from the deck last night and that he enj
