Eleanor wasn’t sure what to think when Sam didn’t come back with his father for dinner. Had she done something to offend him? Was he avoiding her?

Some of her feeling must have shown in her face because Sam’s dad looked up from the flatbread and bean concoction he was scarfing and said, “I’m sure Sam wishes he were here. He only stayed behind because my mom wouldn’t let me out of there unless he stayed to straighten out her grow lights.”

“Why does she have grow lights?”

“For her garden,” Kali said. “She loves that place more than all of us combined, I think.”

“She has her own garden?” Eleanor didn’t think personal gardens were allowed on Hope.

“It’s our family’s original...

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