"Yes, I understand your point," Brooke said with an arched eyebrow. "I shouldn't go about terrorizing the students and the faculty the way I do. I honestly don't mean to, though. They just...leave so many doors open for me to step in and wield my superiority over them. How can one pass up an opportunity like that?"

In the next instant, she waved it off. "But tell be about Spain. Having recently discovered that I'm of Spanish descent myself, I have to admit, I'm curious. Manuel - it's still weird thinking about calling him Dad or Daddy or Father - took me to England over the winter, but he never took me to Spain."