The Conditions of Will

The Conditions of Will

Author: Jessa Hastings Listening Length: 13h 21m
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I cant remember the last time I couldnt get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping. Something about the slipping lid feels like its Sam Pennys fault. Like he broke the seal and hes slowly opening me up. London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie detector and body-language savant, has long been e...

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I take a pill that night so I’ll sleep a little better and longer. I wake up a little after 8:30 and spend the next twenty minutes opening the stupid, old brass doorhandles in the house at a glacial pace so no one knows I’m awake so I can get quarter-ready before I head downstairs.

You know “quarter-ready”? The kind of ready that requires you to slink out of bed and silently ballerina-leap across the loud floorboard that would otherwise creak, so that the beautiful boy across the hall thinks you just wake up looking fresh as a daisy and bright as a button?

When I walk into the kitchen, Oliver’s already dressed. Tenny’s here too. Sam looks up from the breakfast counter and gives me a crooked smile, but looks back down when my brothers notice me.

I lean on the counter. “And where are we off to this morning?”