I didn’t mean to follow Jack anywhere. I swear on all my sins I thought we were just driving in comfortable silence while I slowly forgot how to breathe in his presence. But he pulled up to this sleek, ominously perfect building in a quieter part of town with security cameras blinking like they were judging my outfit and a glass door that screamed either tech startup or front for an elite k********g ring. And then he turned off the engine and just... sat there, holding the steering wheel like it was the only thing keeping him from grabbing me again. I was already sweating. I hadn’t looked him in the eye since Maeve casually detonated my emotional nervous system with the bomb that Jack already knew. About Ryan. About me almost dying. About the thing I had convinced myself no one else knew e
