Chapter 144

Ellie POV

The drive to Dominic’s parents’ mansion is quiet in the worst possible way.

Sarah had left me in Dominc’s hands, bless her, not because she wanted to but bause I begged her.

Besides, he was the only person I felt like myself arond.

Still the car was heavy. Dominic keeps his eyes out the window, jaw locked. He doesn’t ask me what’s happening, which I appreciate, but he does seem aloof.

I poke him.

He look at me.

“What’d…you get from the market?” I gesture to the bags. Just trying to make conversation really.

He looks down at them. Like he forgot he even had them. “Oh, uh,” He shrugs. “Some jerky.”

My brow raises. “Just meat?”

He hesitates and nods.

I smirk. “Right…because I don’t see any pudding in there.”

He sighs, folding his arms and looks backout the window. “It was on sale.”

“Hehe” I grin. “Okay, tough guy.”

“You’re way to smiley,” He says, “more then you have been in weeks. I thought this was an emergency?”

I nod, “It is…but I only feel like myself around you, plus teas