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Leah?” I say. “That you understand why I told the police?”
    “Nah.”
    “I know you don’t like us being together,” I say. “But…would you tell her? Please?”
    “I haven’t told her because she won’t speak to me.” There’s a pause. “She’s been
in her room crying her eyes out all night.”
    “I never meant to hurt her.”
    “Yeah, well. Me neither.”
    “It’s not the same,” I say. “She’ll always be your sister. But I’ve wrecked the best
relationship I’ve ever had.”
    “I wouldn’t be so sure.”
    “Seriously? You think she might still…”
    “Leah is the most loyal person I’ve ever known. That’s why she defended me.” Jake
sighs into the phone. “And that, unfortunately, probably means she’s not done with
you.”
    I don’t hear from Leah that night.
    Or the next day. I pick up my phone every hour or so, think about sending her a text,
then put it back in my pocket.
    I’m not sure if I’m just giving her space or if I’m scared to find out how she feels.
Uncertainty sucks—but maybe it’s better than knowing for sure that it’s over between
us.
    After school I drive down to the Gibsons’. Buddy still needs me, even if Leah doesn’t.
    I park my car, looking at the long line of trees that overhang the driveway and,
behind them, the horses in the field. Buddy’s out there, grazing beside Snow, his
blue blanket muddy from rolling on the rain-sodden ground.
    I’ll have to move him somewhere else, I guess. Another stable.
    Then the barn door opens and Leah steps out.
    “You’re home already?” Then I notice she’s wearing jeans and a hoodie, not her uniform.
“I skipped school today,” she says. “I needed to think.”
    I take a deep breath.
    Wait.
    Hope…
    “I needed to think about us,” she says.
    “Us?” I say. “You and me?”
    Leah steps toward me. Holds out her hands. Smiles in that way that lifts the corners
of her lips and leaves deep dimples in her cheeks. “Yes,” she says. “You and me.”

Acknowledgments
    Thanks as always to my wonderful and endlessly supportive family. Thanks also to
Alex Van Tol for coming up with the title, and to the fabulous team at Orca Book
Publishers.

Robin Stevenson is the award-winning author of numerous books for kids and teens. Under Threat is her fifth book in the Orca Soundings series, following Big Guy, In
the Woods, Outback and Damage . Her other novels for teens include The World Without
Us, Hummingbird Heart, Escape Velocity, Inferno , and the Governor Generals Literary
Award finalist A Thousand Shades of Blue . Robin lives in Victoria, BC.

Titles in the Series
    o rca s o undings

    B Negative
    Vicki Grant
    Back
    Norah McClintock
    Bang
    Norah McClintock
    Battle of the Bands
    K.L. Denman
    Big Guy
    Robin Stevenson
    Bike Thief
    Rita Feutl
    Blue Moon
    Marilyn Halvorson
    Breaking Point
    Lesley Choyce
    Breathing Fire
    Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
    Breathless
    Pam Withers
    Bull Rider
    Marilyn Halvorson
    Bull’s Eye
    Sarah N. Harvey
    Cellular
    Ellen Schwartz
    Charmed
    Carrie Mac
    Chill
    Colin Frizzell
    Comeback
    Vicki Grant
    Coming Clean
    Jeff Ross
    Crash
    Lesley Choyce
    Crush
    Carrie Mac
    Cuts Like a Knife
    Darlene Ryan
    Damage
    Robin Stevenson
    The Darwin Expedition
    Diane Tullson
    Dead-End Job
    Vicki Grant
    Deadly
    Sarah N. Harvey
    Dead Run
    Sean Rodman
    Death Wind
    William Bell
    Down
    Norah McClintock
    Exit Point
    Laura Langston
    Exposure
    Patricia Murdoch
    Fallout
    Nikki Tate
    Fastback Beach
    Shirlee Smith Matheson
    Final Crossing
    Sean Rodman
    First Time
    Meg Tilly
    Foolproof
    Diane Tullson
    Grind
    Eric Walters
    Hannah’s Touch
    Laura Langston
    The Hemingway Tradition
    Kristin Butcher
    Hit Squad
    James Heneghan
    Homecoming
    Diane Dakers
    Home Invasion
    Monique Polak
    House Party
    Eric Walters
    I.D.
    Vicki Grant
    Impact
    James C. Dekker
    In the Woods
    Robin Stevenson
    Infiltration
    Sean Rodman
    Jacked
    Carrie Mac
    Juice
    Eric Walters
    Kicked Out
    Beth Goobie
    Knifepoint
    Alex Van Tol
    Last Ride
    Laura