I Beg Your Pardon?

Chapter 118: I Beg Your Pardon?

***Hazel***

Silence has weight.

I never realized how heavy it could feel until I was sitting in the passenger seat of Caleb’s car, the leather cold against the back of my thighs, the low hum of the engine filling in the gaps of a conversation neither of us wanted to have.

Unlike the rides with Victor—where silence meant comfort, where even without words I felt clo