Flashback ( PDFDrive )

She was starting to wonder if that’d been Ro’s larger plan—to avoid
Bo as long as she possibly could.
“Sounds like you’ve had no problem staying in touch with Keefe,”
Marella noted as she headed down the stairs. “Why does that not
surprise me?”
Sophie ignored her, trying to cool her heated cheeks before she had
to face the rest of her friends. But she was pretty sure she was still
bright red when she reached the main room, where Tarina was in the
middle of asking Tam another question—which he looked pretty
fidgety about—and Sandor was carefully monitoring the stare-down
between Linh, Wylie, and Bo.
“Oh good!” Sophie said, clapping her hands to break the tension
and forcing some enthusiasm into her voice. “You guys have met!
Does that mean we can skip introductions and get right to discussing
a training plan?”
Bo shook his head. “I never agreed to train the girl who wiped out
half my city.”
Linh didn’t cower at the accusation—but she did scoot ever so
slightly closer to Wylie. And Wylie moved a little in front of her as
Tam crossed the room to stand at his sister’s side.
Sophie joined them, standing as tall as she could when she told Bo,
“Linh was only there that day because I asked her to be. And if you
want to talk about why we had to sneak into Ravagog, I can call Flori
down here and she can tell you why her great-great-grandaunt had to
sacrifice herself.”
Bo locked his jaw.
“Like you said,” Sophie told him, “we don’t have to be friends. But
Linh has risked her life over and over to help protect me. So if she