A Night Untethered

Kaelen’s POV

The check was paid before she could even reach for her purse. I didn't do it out of a sense of archaic chivalry; I did it because, in my world, the one who pays controls the pace. Information is currency, but timing is power, and I wasn't ready for this night to end. Not yet. I had spent my life moving from one objective to the next, but for the first time in years, the "machine" was