Chapter 58 Controlled

***Hazel***

Gideon doesn’t speak much on the drive.

Not because he’s angry. Not because he’s distracted.

Because he’s already thinking ten steps ahead.

I notice it in the way he checks mirrors that don’t need checking. In the way his hand stays loose on the steering wheel, like he could turn the car hard left without warning. In the way he doesn’t ask if I’m okay again, he already did that once, a