Chapter 44 Five: Aleksei

• It’s time for Georgina’s lunch.
• When she doesn’t eat, everything I say is the wrong thing. So we don’t miss meals.
• She has been quiet since I informed her my shackles come off tonight. Quiet and…restless. I take a book from the glove compartment and drop it in her lap, but she starts to read it upside down, so I stow it away again. Her fingers pluck at the hem of her skirt, her feet perform an awkward dance routine, and she keeps changing the radio stations, never settling.