I let Gabriel know that I was on my way.
I was happy to finally hear from him but I wasn’t as relieved as I initially thought I would be… and I hated that. It felt wrong to not be as excited.
I was even driving under the speed limit. My interaction with Bryce was sitting in my mind and it was all I could truthfully focus on.
He really acted like he had only heard my name in passing. Was I mistaking his normal smiles for creepy grins because of the things that I had been told?
It wasn’t completely impossible that Bryce was just acting nice. And he was still an actual snake…
By the time I pulled up to the building Gabe had disappeared into earlier, he was already waiting outside and I could tell he was anxious.
As soon as his eyes landed on me I could almost see the tension leaving his
