A Lesson in Control

Ale’s POV

The car turned down a darker road, city lights fading away.

My thoughts were already inside the hall, plotting, tasting the chaos I was about to unleash.

Then Ale’s voice cut through the haze, soft but insistent. “So..... you’re really not going to tell me where we’re going?”

I shook my head, a smirk tugging at my lips, but I didn’t let her see it. I felt the edge in her tone, her an