90.   Allies - Part 1

~ RIG ~

I waited in more shadows, more bushes, hidden from the street under the window of her dorm room until the window finally creaked open and she leaned out, her face going from worried, to happy in a blink.

“There you are. Sorry, one of the girls caught me in the hallway.”

She pushed the window wide open, then stepped back so that I could leap inside.

I peered through the bushes, examining the night-dark street and listening until I was certain the coast was clear. Cara had left the interior lights turned off so that I wouldn’t be seen.

The minute I leaped inside the frame, then over her desk to the carpet of her room, she pushed past me to lean out and pull the window closed, checking out in the str