Cornered at the Gate

Willa was walking out through the side entrance of the school with two friends when she saw him standing near the gate.

She recognized him immediately. Judd, Vivian's brother, the man who had stood near the back of the room at her father's wedding to Vivian, laughing too loudly at something, his tie loosened by the second hour, watching the room with the specific restlessness of someone calculati