“No, we can’t go now. We have to wait for Chris.”
“The deal was that if anything happened, you would leave immediately. You agreed to that.”
“I’ll be okay on my own,” Paige says with a bright smile. “It’s totally safe here.”
A war goes on inside me, with too many choices and decisions to make and none of them good. Someone has to wait here for Chris, but the pain rattling in my brain is making it crystal clear it can’t be me. I’m no use to Adam or Paige if I’m like this anyway. But we can’t leave Paige on her own either.
I pull away from Adam and stand on my own, finding my balance again. “I’ll take the car and meet up with Zahra. You two wait and see if Chris shows up.”
Adam studies me, his blue eyes seeing everything, even the things I don’t say. He touches my cheek softly, and I co
