Yancy Hale must have been screaming quite miserably. Sydney Sawyer glanced sheepishly at Ryder Sharp. "Brother, Summer should be okay, right?"
'If Yancy were a more respectable person, she wouldn't have minded calling him 'Brother' too. But he was so unreliable and only a year her senior, so Sydney Sawyer just called him Summer.'
Ryder Sharp asked, "Want to go check next door?"
"Well..."
'Even though they were neighbors, she'd been in Aethelgard for days and had never once visited the Lockwoods. Besides, given her situation with Sebastian Lockwood, she couldn't just drop in casually.'
"I brought some local specialties from Keston. I should go grab them. It wouldn't be right to go over for the first time empty-handed."
Ryder Sharp just figured she was being polite and proper, so he didn't give it a second thought.
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