Chapter Thirty-One
Betting in a Burning House
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. –Chinese Proverb
Day 4—7:24PM
Casa de Griffin
LUKAS
Our dinner doesn’t last long after I return to the table.
With a barely composed look on my face and a quietly impatient Sabrina fuming silently in her chair, we adjourn pretty quickly, wrapping up last bits of info about the joint Tripping Out!-Voyager piece—finally putting all of the remaining recovered hacked files to use.
Thank f*****g God.
I am only too eager to get out of there—only too eager to head back to my house where I know Elena is waiting. And what will happen between us now?
I have no idea.
I just know that despite breaking my promise to myself not to tou
