~Vivian~
The drive home was a mess. I wasn’t even sure how I managed to stay on the road. My hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, my knuckles pale, as the image of Nico snapping that man’s neck played over and over in my head. The sound of it. The way his body dropped to the ground like a lifeless sack of meat. I shivered, my stomach rolling with nausea, but I swallowed it down.
It wasn’t the first time I’d seen death. But it was the first time I’d seen it happen so close, so violently. The blood on Nico’s hands… those same hands that had traced my body, left me breathless in the middle of night. My fingers tightened around the wheel as I shook my head, trying to shove the thought away, but it clung to me still.
I wasn’t in the mood to work. There was no point pretending I could wa
