Timing Is Everything

***Hazel***

“Oh my God, we’re finally getting married.” The words slipped out of me before I could stop them.

Victor glanced at me from the driver’s seat, one hand resting loosely on the wheel, the other reaching across the console to lace his fingers through mine.

His thumb brushed over my knuckles in slow, absent circles. “We are, baby,” he said simply.

The city drifted past outside the w