Boiling Point

GAEL'S POV

The room was too quiet. The kind of quiet that scraped the inside of your head.

Myra was fumbling with Kiera’s phone, her fingers trembling so bad she nearly dropped it twice before she managed to unlock it. Her breathing was loud—too loud—and the way her eyes kept flicking up at me made my skin crawl.

“Be quicker,” I said, pacing the floor. My arms itched. My back itched. Everything un