Chapter 36
SOPHIA
Daniel's phone buzzed against the table for the third time in twenty minutes, and for the third time, he flipped it over without really looking at me, his thumb moving fast over the screen before he set it back down face up this time, some app still glowing there that I recognized well enough. A little blue dot. A map. Her name pinned somewhere across the city.
"You're doing that a lot lately," I said, keeping my voice light, teasing, the way I always kept things light around him even when something underneath me had started to feel anything but.
"Doing what?" he asked, not looking up.
"Checking where she is."
He glanced at me then, something flickering behind his eyes before he shrugged it off, careless, easy. "Just being careful. With everything Marcus mentioned a
