Damian’s Point of View
Anything was better than staying in the house, waiting for another surely awkward encounter with my parents, but when Carolyn suggested the rink, my heart sank in my chest. That wasn’t ideal, considering my head was still in knots about this whole playbook thing. Bri had been right though, if I was having second thoughts about stealing the playbook and using it to our advantage, I had to own up to it and tell Carolyn before she invested herself too deep into it. I mean she said she’d already made it a quarter of the way through this book, this woman moved fast and I was already feeling guilty enough about that.
I unhooked the latch to the back gate, gesturing for Carolyn to walk first into the rink area before following in after her. My pulse was still thrumbing a
