LOVE ME LIKE A CURSE
“I woke up, and you were gone. Gone! No note, no text, nothing! Do you know how terrifying that was? I thought you’d been kidnapped by some creepy pervert—”
“Rhea.”
“—tiny little—”
“Rhea!”
Her rant cut off, though her arms were still waving dramatically. Behind her, Elias appeared in the hallway, leaning against the wall with a piece of toast dangling from his mouth. His hair stuck up in every direction headphone still hung around his neck.
“Called it,” he mumbled around the toast. “She’s alive. Pay up.”
Rhea spun on him. “Nobody bet you anything!”
“I bet myself,” Elias said with a shrug. “And I won.”