Storm of Defiance

Cora's POV

She didn't understand. The award meant nothing if I couldn't share it with her. She was the only person I wanted there tonight, and she was walking away from me in the rain.

A car honked behind me, swerving around us. Cora used the distraction to walk faster, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. Her dress was plastered to her body, her hair hanging in wet ropes down her back. She wa