The car hummed down the nearly empty road as the city lights of Grosthe flickered faintly in the distance. Neither of us felt any comfort seeing it— John and I. It seemed like we were heading straight into something alarming.
The silence in the car wasn’t peaceful. Now and then, John's grip on the wheel would tighten, as my leg refused to stop bouncing. Neither of us said it aloud, but Julius’s warning was still in our minds, uninvited yet impossible to ignore.
He hadn’t threatened us, but merely stated a fact, one we were too late to do anything about.
The time for pretending we could fix the chaos by ignoring it had passed. Things had already spun out of control. Now, it was all about survival and covering whatever tracks we left, making sure no one got close enough to uncover everyth
