Three Weeks

Maddox POV

After dinner, we drove back to my apartment in silence. Not the peaceful kind either. The kind that sits between two people like a third passenger, heavy, stubborn, refusing to move. I kept my eyes on the road, hands tight on the wheel. Hadley stared out the window, her face turned away, like the streetlights were more interesting than the mess we’d been pretending wasn’t there.

I didn’