What Exactly Are You

ROWAN’S POV

I shuffle back without meaning to, staring at the room now, really seeing it — the sheeted furniture, the clouded vanity mirror, the record player in the corner, all of it kept and dusted — and then I snap my eyes back to Vera.

“What the hell are you doing bringing me here?” My voice shakes. “Does Vance know you come in here? Are you even allowed to be in this room?”

Vera tilts her hea