The house was painfully quiet when they arrived, the annoying kind of quiet that meant something was about to go terribly wrong.
Zoe's front door was unlocked, which meant Emery had used his key to enter.
Zoe made a mental note to change her locks. Asking for her keys back could make Emery turn vengeful and break into her house.
He was very unpredictable, but should she care?
Zoe filed it under urgent and important things in her head.
Nathaniel's hand found the small of her back as they walked past her little corridor, his gesture which had become, in the space of a handful of days, closer to habit than performance.
Zoe threw him a curious look over her shoulder.
"You don't have to come in"
"You hired me to be your shield against Landon, didn’t you?” Nathaniel’s lips thined into a
