Safety Net

PIPER’S POV

The moment the car door shut, the world felt too small. Too quiet.

Kellan’s engine hummed beneath us, steady and low, but my heart was anything but. My hands were clenched in my lap so tightly my fingers ached.

I stared straight ahead through the windshield, watching the parking lot lights blur, my reflection faintly visible in the glass, wide-eyed, shaken, guilty. I opened my mouth, t