Chapter 35 Control Issues

***Gideon***

I shouldn’t be here.

That thought keeps looping as I sit in the driver’s seat of my own vehicle, engine idling, lights dark, hands locked around the steering wheel like it’s the only thing keeping me grounded.

Across the street, the Thai place glows warm and yellow. Too warm. Too human. Hazel sits by the window, chopsticks in hand, hair falling loose around her shoulders as she leans