Her stomach clenches as he talks, both for the idea and the casual, careless way he relates it. The only attempt to put her in a foster home had ended with hurried explanations of misunderstandings to do with sleepwalking and really there were no hard feelings about the broken nose but maybe she'd be better off elsewhere, and the idea of being someplace where the default was probably to assume the girl involved was a fucked up little liar makes her feel sick.

But he's gone -- Aiden says he's gone, so she's safe -- and she sets her shoulders in bravado to hide it away.

"So let's not get caught."