Frost and Ashes

ROWAN’S POV

The man follows my gaze to the flower, baffled, then sees Garek and Cruz, who have arrived and are looming with the unmistakable energy of men deciding whether to break someone, and he goes pale and starts to babble.

“I — please — I didn’t — a man gave it to me, I swear, I didn’t take anything, a man in traffic, back there, he just — he handed it to me through the car window, said it w