Ace kept his eyes on his phone for the entire drive. When he wasn’t dialing her, texting her, or trying to locate her, he stared at the screen.
He finished installing the communications software for the past four packs in record time while leaving Loraina one voicemail after another. Something wasn’t sitting well with him, and he felt like something was horribly wrong.
Turns out, he wasn’t wrong.
Cal drove down an empty highway while everyone else remained relatively quiet in the background. The radio was turned down low, but filled the air with something other than awkwardness and Ace’s heavy breathing.
His eyes remained on the blackened screen until it finally, finally, lit up.
He swiped the screen, holding it up to his ear. “I’ve been calling you for hours, what h
