Chapter 243

Harper

We didn’t linger another second in that fucking house.

Gavin made a few sharp phone calls in a language I didn’t recognize, his tone clipped and dangerous, and when he hung up, he only said one thing to me:

“Everything will be taken care of.”

I didn’t ask what that meant.

I didn’t want to know.

The moment we stepped outside, the cold hit me like a slap. The air was sharp, metallic, the sky