Chapter 0257

Chapter 0257

Hannah

The car ride home was tense, the silence broken only by the soft hum of the engine as Noah drove down the sunlit streets. I couldn’t shake the irritation that had been building since Leonard’s parting words.

“Don’t forget to pick up Zoe tonight!”

Bastard. So he had gotten my skin after all; and to make matters worse, he wasn’t bluffing when he said

that.

“Hannah,” Noah said, sounding exasperated, “come on. You’ve been staring out the window with your eyes practically bugging out for ten minutes straight.”

glare that was sharp enough to cut diamonds. “I just still don’t understand why you have to pick up Zoe tonight,”

“I already

pressed. “She can’t call

winding road leading to our mansion. “Like I said earlier, it would be unbecoming for someone of her status to order a cab to an event like this,” Noah replied in a clipped tone of voice. “Plus, she’s scared

his words. “Scared? She’s scared? You’ve got to be kidding

allowed to be

one who almost died. And

a cold sweat because I thought that I had seen Jake’s rotting corpse, dripping with water, standing in the corner of


clenched, a muscle ticking visibly beneath his skin. “It’s not a competition, Hannah.

I muttered, turning away

respond, not that I expected him to. When chanced a glance over at him, his face was stony

I blurted out before I could stop myself. “I bet he set this whole thing up

“Okay, now y

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