Callie
The silence in the truck should've been suffocating. Instead, it was filled with tension. As the engine stopped at the driveway, I didn’t dare move yet. I could still feel the heat of his voice in my ears.
I came because if I'd waited another minute, I would have done something I'd regret.
Grayson Carter did not just show up at that party.
He came for me and that shouldn’t have meant anything. Shouldn’t have made my heart raced.
But it did.
He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles had gone white. I could feel the fury he was trying to contain beneath his rough exterior.
"I'm going inside," I said quietly, almost afraid to break the spell.
He nodded curtly while still not looking at me.
I stepped out into the warm dusk, the heat of the day still lingering on t
