Chapter 17The YBR was a very different place in the evening when everyone had gone.
Inside its silent walls, Gaspard could feel the remains of what had happened here today. Climbing up the stairs to the third floor, he thought of Zack, and what it must have been like for him to walk out the front door, knowing he could never come back here again.
Marooned and exiled from a place whose very motto was Welcome to all.
But though Gaspard felt terrible for Zack, he couldn’t forgive him for taking Malena with him this afternoon. She’d called him up in tears an hour ago, confused and upset, and Gaspard had convinced her to come home. He’d fixed her a cup of tea and tried talking some sense into her, but she’d been too emotional to hear him out and had shut herself up in her bedroom. She’d been
