Chapter 9:
"I THOUGHT THIS WAS APPROVED BEFORE?"
Alex sprinted down the driveway, wallet in hand, and yanked open the passenger door.
"About time!" Diana didn't even look up from her phone. "I was two seconds away from leaving you."
"Had to find my wallet." Alex threw himself into the seat, slightly winded.
"You'd forget your own head." Diana tossed her phone into the cupholder and shifted into reverse. "Seatbelt."
The car pulled onto the street, Christmas lights already twinkling on houses even though it was barely afternoon. Diana reached for the radio, flipping through static until she landed on a station playing "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
They made it exactly two blocks before she dropped the bomb.
"So. Maya and Ethan."
Alex's stomach dropped. "What about them?"
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