Girl in the Shadows (Shadows 2)

"Go on," Trevor said. "You won't be no good to

me itching to get over there as soon as you can." I handed him my basket of grapes and hurried

to join Tyler as he approached the house.

"All right," he said. "I'll confess I thought

you'd

do very poorly on all this, but you really surprised me.

You must have been a decent student."

"Decent but not terrific."

"Good enough," he insisted. "I think we can get

you past the high school equivalency all right." He indicated a bag of books. "These are yours. We'll start on it right away. There's a bottle of our chocolate

wine sauce in there for you to taste as well," "Thanks," I said, taking it all.

We heard Echo call to him and turned to see

she had come out on the porch.

"How is she?" he asked. "Any more talk

about...?"

"She hasn't said a word about any of it.

especially Destiny. I think it's still frightening to her." "Don't worry about it. I have some ideas about

how to handle all this. For now, let's forget about all

that and get to work."

One of the first things he did when he entered

the house was seek out Mrs. Westington to tell her

how well I did on the evaluation tests.

"You don't have to tell me. I knew that girl was

good material." she told him.

I was surprised at how much work Tyler had

already done in regard to my test preparations. He had

developed a structured series of lessons in every

subject.

"We'll work it as close to the actual school

experience as we can." he explained. "You'll read the