Chapter 10

He’d do the same thing for me,” Rennie says, and I can’t believe she can keep a straight face saying it. As if Leonid would lift a finger for anybody but himself! “Oh, and speaking of that, I’m not going to be at practice for the rest of this week. Leonid got a few appointments off island to see a sports-medicine specialist.” She smiles to herself, pleased. “He’s getting his hard cast off tomorrow, right on schedule.”

My head snaps up. “Why do you have to miss practice for that?”

Rennie ignores me and says, “Ash, can you be in charge?”

Ashlin casts an uneasy look my way. “Sure. Lil and I can do it together—right, Lil?”

Incredulously I ask, “Are you quitting the squad or something?”

“No, I’m not quitting the squad,” Rennie snaps. “That’s not what I said.”

“Well, you have missed, like, three practices already,” I say, and my voice shakes a little as I say it, because I’m scared. I’m actually calling her out on her BS for once.

Rennie’s cheeks heat up. “When I signed on to rep Leonid’s n