This was not supposed to happen.
If I hadn’t been so terrified of reaching for something that triggered my anxiety, I would have pulled myself out of his grasp already. But I couldn’t. My mind was still processing what had happened and what could have happened, leaving me frozen like a pole stuck in the north.
The things I was willing to do for Jia were ridiculous. I had acknowledged that before, and I still did.
Seven appeared from the entrance and immediately recoiled from the awful smell assaulting his nostrils. He tilted his head to the side and gagged, squinting his eyes shut. “Why does it smell like roadkill in here?”
Hayon stammered, struggling to form words. She looked petrified, matching the expressions of her friends. “S-she… um… we found a dead rodent but didn’t have the cou
