#Chapter 64: Making Ends Meet

Tessa

Gideon pulled the car into the parking lot, and the moment I recognized the neon sign above the diner entrance, my stomach twisted. The lights buzzing over the glass door were the same ones that used to flicker every night at the end of my shift, casting dim halos across the cracked pavement.

I hadn’t been back here in what felt like forever, even though it hadn’t really been that long at al