Chapter 35
NORA
My heart stopped.
"Where?" I asked, keeping my voice light, confused, turning slightly to glance toward the window myself like I had no idea what he was talking about.
"By the driveway," he said, moving past me now, crossing toward the window himself, and I felt every second stretch out long and sharp, my mind racing through explanations, discarding each one as fast as it arrived. A delivery driver lost. A neighbor's guest parked wrong. None of it would hold up if he actually walked outside and saw Adrian sitting behind the wheel.
I moved fast, cutting across the room ahead of him, positioning myself at the window first, angling my body just enough to block the clearest sightline while I looked out myself, buying half a second to think.
The car was already pulling awa
