"So, Ryan, what's the latest news?" Sydney asked once it was settled that both Lucy and Ivy were coming with us.
Lucy was fine.
Ivy was different.
She had made it pretty clear that if we told her no, she would just go on her own anyway, and there was no way I was letting that happen. Better to keep her with us where we could watch her than risk her heading into that mess alone because she'd made up her mind. I was still worried, obviously. But I couldn't deny she had handled herself better than most people since the beginning of all this. Calm, capable, impossible to shake. So in the end, I trusted her.
"What latest news?" I asked, looking at Sydney where she sat on my bed like she owned the room.
She rolled one shoulder. "The latest from the Boardwalk. This whole last week. What have you actually been doing there?"
Rachel, Cindy, and Christopher all looked at me too after that, curious now that Sydney had brought it up.
