Chapter 24

• “I did.” They rounded the corner, and she wanted to jump up and down and dance, which was just stupid, but he was the first person who knew anything about her. “What was she like? Was she an angel?”
• He looked over her head in the other direction as he walked. There was a group of teens hanging out by a doorway to some apartments. “She was not. Your mother was—” He rubbed his hand over the side of his face. “A handful.”
• Ava grinned. “Yeah. Like out of control or high energy?” Someone knew something about her mother.