HAZEL
Axel didn’t look at me again. He just turned back to his phone as if the conversation was finished on his end and there was nothing else to talk about.
The phone he gave me felt cold and heavy in my hands. I stared at it like it was a snake about to bite me. Like if I blinked hard enough, it would disappear. But it didn’t. It stayed. And I didn’t know what to do with it.
Really, I didn’t want it..... He already told me he’d be listening to it, and now it was just another device for him to monitor me, another way to get into my head.
I wished I could relax, but panic kept crawling up my spine.
I didn’t want to ask where we were going, because I was afraid of the answer. But the silence was worse.
“Axel…” The name slipped from me before I could stop it.
He didn’t look, but I had
