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laughed.
    “Thanks,” I said, pulling it over my head. “I was trying to make it a little warmer, but as you can see-” I put my hand up into the air. “It didn’t work.”
    “It will happen on its own,” said Ressler, sitting down next to me.
    “Will it?” I asked, unconvinced.
    “Yes. You need to be more patient.”
    I turned to look at him. “I haven’t got time to be patient, Ressler. People want me dead. No, not people. Fallen angels. They are one hundred times stronger than me, you know that. This is all I have and I don’t have time to sit around and wait for something to happen. I need to make it happen.”
    “You know what Caleb said.”
    “The power could consume me, yes I know, and I’m not afraid. You know what Caleb’s like. He’s overprotective and secretive, and for all I know, he’s making the whole thing up.”
    “Why would he do that?”
    “I don’t know. To control me?”
    “You have no idea what you’re up against here.” Ressler said with a grunt.
    “But you do?”
    Ressler took a moment before he answered me. ”No, I don’t.”
    “You do. I can tell. What are you keeping from me?” I let out a small laugh, but it was thick with bitterness. “I would expect Caleb to lie to me, but not you. You’re supposed to be my friend.”
    “Right. Your friend.” The way he said it let me know he hated it, and I dismissed it like I always did.
    “I know you know, Ressler. I don’t doubt it for a second. And when you’re ready to talk, I’ll be waiting.” I would let this go for now, but I wouldn’t forget. He knew something, and I wanted to know what. I had been tempted to ask him about the note I found in my pocket earlier, but I couldn’t see the point now, and asking him about it would mean I doubted that it was a prank, and might actually be real.
    “Why can’t you just trust me?” he said.
    “When you give me a reason to, I will.”
    He rubbed the back of his head and puffed out a defeated breath. “I would never deliberately lie to you, but I will never do anything to put you in danger, either. Has it not once crossed your mind that what Caleb said is true? Have you not once thought that just maybe, the things we think you might be able to do are so powerful, we need to protect you from it? Tell me now that you really believe we are so against you that we get off lying to you all the time.”
    I didn’t know what to say. Ressler wore his emotions on his sleeve and I wanted to believe him, I really did, but he didn’t understand how I was feeling. He didn’t get what this was like for me. He didn’t know what it was like to lose yourself and have to try and find a path in a new life- a life that I couldn’t even tell anybody about.
    “I get it, Ressler. I need to figure it out on my own.” I took a drink of my milk and thought about what he said. I couldn’t carry on just waiting. “Can we compromise?”
    “Depends on the compromise,” he said.
    “I won’t push you anymore with questions, on one condition.”
    He looked skeptical. “What’s that?”
    “You help me figure out what it is that I can do.”
    He looked at me with part smirk, part frown.
    “I want to practice.”
    “Caleb-”
    “I couldn’t give a crap about Caleb. He’s not my handler,” I said with aggravation. “Do you do everything Caleb says?” I said it to get him on side. I knew he wouldn’t want to be thought of as nothing more than an obedient follower.
    He smiled broadly. “Okay, it’s a deal.”
    “Excellent.” I couldn’t help it. I shrieked and pulled myself up onto my knees and threw my arms around his neck. I landed a quick kiss on his cheek. “You’re the best.”
    “Make sure you remember that.”
    I nodded. “I won’t forget it.”
    “So was the party last night worth it?” he asked me. I shot him a look that said, what do you think?
    “I just needed to get away,” I said. “I needed to be somewhere where Caleb wouldn’t know where I